Valve – Handbook for New Employees (2012) [pdf]

Re:Valve – Handbook for New Employees (2012) [pdf] by Corence on Monday July 25, 2016 @01:15PM (#12160060)

Yes, when I began studying CS I got hit with this pressure really hard. It definitely gave me the feeling that I didn't belong in the field. It is like a cousin to Impostor Syndrome. Instead of feeling like I'm incompetent (though that still happens sometimes), I feel like I shouldn't be in the field since I don't care enough about it to work on it more than 40-45 hours a week.

Three years into my job, I'm mostly over it. I still have to deal with coworkers laughing that I use Windows on my personal computer, but at least I can eat the cake I made this weekend.

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Re:Valve – Handbook for New Employees (2012) [pdf] by flatpointer23 on Monday July 25, 2016 @01:58PM (#12160355)

Eh, I'm the same as you. We belong in the field. :D

Besides, what are your coworkers doing, playing computer games on Wine? The paltry selection of osx Steam games? Do they have (shudder) _consoles_?

There's definitely people in the field who don't put in unpaid overtime all the time, who don't go home and write Markov Chains in Haskell to make William Burroughs-esque poetry. There's a lot to be said for having some balance, where your entire life isn't devoted to one topic or to your career.

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Re:Valve – Handbook for New Employees (2012) [pdf] by navbaker on Monday July 25, 2016 @07:45PM (#12162391)

I love my Windows PC with VirtualBox running any flavor of UNIX I want!

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