Re:Kodak's Discovery of A-Bomb Testing (2016)
by mattkevan on Monday February 18, 2019 @06:15PM
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Absolutely the case for me too.
Switched courses to design because my chemistry tutor kept telling me off for doodling on my notes. Got into web development was because I was bored at work and started learning HTML.
Trouble is, it means that whatever I’m doing is what I should be doing some point in the future, not what I actually need to do right now...
Re:Kodak's Discovery of A-Bomb Testing (2016)
by smueller1234 on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @03:01AM
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I have another variant of this: I get code rage (which I can easily self diagnose after the fact as being simply NIH in most cases). So whenever I got stuck debugging a bunch of spaghetti, I'd go look for distractions. But because at this point, that was in a professional setting and no longer just my target for procrastination, I was looking for professionally valid distractions. So I became a team lead/manager that way. One thing leads to another and here I am. Turns out I liked that career, too.
Definitely not. On large scale, I own most of my career to that disease. On small scale, pretty much every job I got could be attributed to something that I learned through procrastination a year or two earlier.