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I’m Australian and I agree with your general perspective. However I disagree with this: > Strives to do a "good enough" job rather than absolute excellence. F
by enneff 4y ago
I’m Australian and I agree with your general perspective. However I disagree with this:
> Strives to do a "good enough" job rather than absolute excellence.
For me, one of my biggest sources of personal satisfaction is striving for excellence. Of course I have realistic expectations, there are many pressures that may ultimately prevent me from achieving excellence, but having the goal of being the best at my craft is one of the main things that gives meaning to my work.
- AA-BA-94-2A-56 4y agoI'm also Australian and let me just say; careful, this is the path to burn out. I spent much of the Easter weekend learning Go, and to me that was a solid investment of my time. I do not make a habit of coding extracurricularly though. If I want to hone my skills or work on a personal project, I'll do this in dead time during my fulltime work. As an exercise, it is better to improve your ability to get things done within the 9-5 window than to allow that to balloon into your personal time. You can still strive for excellence without running yourself fullsteam into burnoutland.
- enneff 4y agoI’ve experienced burnout. (Probably while producing a lot of the docs you consumed learning go, btw ;) Like I said, I agreed with my parent post’s points on just working 9-5 (on average I probably work less than that), but I just think it’s important to try to do things really, really well, but within the constraints of having a balanced life.