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 Reedx on Monday October 12, 2020 @06:03PM (#24759962)

You're far from alone, it just seems like as hobby/passion programmers tend to spend more time programming and less time posting about work life balance on Twitter or HN. So naturally they have a quieter, smaller voice in these kind of discussions.

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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by TeMPOraL on Monday October 12, 2020 @06:17PM (#24760097)

Not sure if that's true. The (small, local, biased) sample I have suggests the reverse. People I know who program only on the job generally don't participate in the wider programmer community, and don't frequent discussion sites, unless they're looking for something directly job-related.

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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by gosukiwi on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @01:05AM (#24762444)

I also think that passionate programmers are way more rare. We are used to being weird so we don't care :)

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