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There is often pressure inside Software development for Software developers to code outside of work hours. Coding is considered a passion for some, but others don’t think this way. They are more than happy to not code in their spare time. This is OK.
Meetup groups, side-projects, coding quizzes, side-hustles, developing websites for friends and family. Improving your coding skills takes time, effort, discipline and sacrifice. But is it really necessary? That is for you to decide.
There is no doubt that there is importance to setting goals. It helps to see where you are going and to have something you are working towards. Being the best coder isn’t everyone’s goal.
People often feel peer pressure to code outside of hours, to stay competitive and to be the best. If someone is making you feel this way, you can remind yourself that it is perfectly OK to only code at work. Some people might even argue that doing too much can have diminishing returns…
[...] In short, it is perfectly OK to have a life outside of work. Many people hack their schedules according to their own goals and interests, which may or may not include coding. If you think this post could help someone out there, please share it around!
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday May 05 2019, @01:00AM (5 children)
Well, if you're a a top-ranking musician during the day and Cleopatra's lover at night, life tends to be more exciting than that of a code monkey paid to debug a Javascript expense sheet checker written without comment by someone else in a nondescript company in Bangor, Maine, overdue and under budget, to eek out enough to pay for the house and the car and send the kids to college...
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @01:12AM (4 children)
Sorry about that. Are you debugging the one I wrote in all caps or the one without vowels in the variable names (it's like only playing the white keys on a piano).
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Sunday May 05 2019, @07:19AM (2 children)
The one where every variable/block/function is an acronym, and there isn't a single comment anywhere.
Oh ... Sorry. You were exaggerating, and I ruin it with actual i-work-with-this-guy trauma.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @09:24AM (1 child)
An acronym of Hindi terms using Sanskrit code-points?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Sunday May 05 2019, @08:58PM
Purebred white American who graduated long before memory and storage got cheap.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday May 05 2019, @01:16PM
You mean, like C major and A minor?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.