Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus on your job

Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by secondcoming on Monday October 12, 2020 @05:35PM (#24759688)

I used be like that when I was younger. Hell, I taught myself to program doing this exact thing. But nowadays, I really don't want to spend weekends looking at a monitor all day. Before you know it, you've spent 8 or 10 or whatever hours tinkering away.

There's a point where it's not healthy. It'll catch up with you and there's a danger you'll find yourself not having the enthusiasm to do your hobby projects and also your real job.

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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by TeMPOraL on Monday October 12, 2020 @06:14PM (#24760055)

I wonder what will catch up with us exactly. A serious question - because I'm by no means young, and I'm still in the "forever tinkering" phase. I wish I could spend 8 or 10 hours on it on a regular basis - but the job that's funding my tinkering is also taking away the time for it.

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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by nosianu on Monday October 12, 2020 @09:21PM (#24761361)

I think the point is that most people don't have such amazing genes that spending even more time than just work for decades in front of a monitor does not impact their bodies. The worst part is sitting. I want to move my body, and I sacrificed computer hours. I don't watch any TV at all already either, so there's nothing I could move from that time-budget to programming projects.

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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by secondcoming on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @06:29AM (#24764106)

Life, other priorities.

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