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Re:You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make by darkpuma on Thursday February 14, 2019 @01:02PM (#19164156)
God I hope you're not a manager. When you see an employee's pictures of a strenuous hike they went on, is your first thought that they must be stealing that energy from the company?
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Re:You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make by lukebitts on Thursday February 14, 2019 @01:08PM (#19164215)
GP is probably talking about themselves. I too feel very little energy to program my personal projects after spending the whole day programming for my company
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Re:You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make by darkpuma on Thursday February 14, 2019 @03:35PM (#19165728)
Why phrase it as doing a "disservice to your employer" rather than "a disservice to yourself"? That sort of phrasing is a huge red flag for me.
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Re:You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make by w323898 on Thursday February 14, 2019 @01:43PM (#19164562)
Maybe your personal projects shouldn't involve programming?
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Re:You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make by lukebitts on Thursday February 14, 2019 @02:09PM (#19164850)
Why?
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Re:You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make by w323898 on Thursday February 14, 2019 @02:55PM (#19165380)
It sounds like you're not that into it. Plus the assumption that people should spend their free time trying to make more money is weird despite being taken for granted around here. It's one heck of a doublethink, if you consider the combination of aspirational self-improvement talk with bald careerism.
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Re:You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make by lukebitts on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:08PM (#19166042)
> It sounds like you're not that into it

Assuming you are right, do you think if I was actually into programming I wouldn't feel too tired for more programming after work?

I'm asking because not having the energy for more programming after doing it for the whole day seems pretty normal to me and not really indicative of being into programming or not but... am I wrong?

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Re:You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make by Madmallard on Thursday February 14, 2019 @06:07PM (#19166959)
I don't think working out zaps work energy I think it would actually enhance it. But doing intellectual work on the job likely reduces capacity for intellectual work off the job at least in that same day.
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