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I started my career because I love programming. That was a big mistake for me. Not because it didn't pay well, but because I lost the passion. When I spend 8 h
by lis 14y ago
I started my career because I love programming. That was a big mistake for me. Not because it didn't pay well, but because I lost the passion.
When I spend 8 hours a day programming, I don't want to do it at home. It's probably because I don't want to sit in front of a computer all day, or I am lacking social interaction at work. That's why I am currently trying to change my position. While I still love IT and everything tech-related, I want programming to become a hobby again.
I admire everyone who is programming after work, tinkering around, building stuff. I promised my nephew to build a quadrocopter with him, but I haven't done so, just because I am already programming and doing techy things each day again and again.
- Nursie 14y agoI seem to have managed a mental separation between 'programming I have to do' and 'programming I want to do'. The latter category only happens sporadically because, like you, I don't often have the energy to code all evening when I've coded all day. But I do find some time for it. Social interaction definitely takes precedence though.