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Re:How to Have Healthy Relationships as a Developer by Trundle on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @02:14AM (#12252902)
Listening to the little nagging voice of career sensibility stops being a good idea if you're not going to then turn that quality salary and employment security in to a base for a fun life.

If not programming, that 20% of your brain would have been thinking about whatever else it is you did for a job.

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Re:How to Have Healthy Relationships as a Developer by pikachu_is_cool on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @02:34AM (#12252951)
I think it would be a lot less than 20%. It's so much easier to context switch into and out of the "work" mindset in other fields.

By default, this "computer brain" of mine is carried with me when I leave work. I have to make a concentrated effort to context switch back into "real life" mode (similarly how I have to context switch into "computer" mode). I think that's why so many of the good programmers are a little weird and introverted, because they don't bother to context switch back.

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