Do I code outside of work? Rarely. Mostly it's just testing out some theories rather than full-blown side-projects.
Does that make my any less passionate about programming or the industry I'm in? Not in the least.
I'm at work surrounded by coding, design, architecture, business discussions all day, 5 days a week, most days over 8 hours. While I don't always have time to be dabbling in the latest and greatest, I'm always looking for how I can improve. I'm always testing out new ideas or finding a day here and there to work on some not-quite-necessary, but would bring benefit to our daily work types of tasks. This is what keeps me refreshed and recharged.
After sitting and staring at a screen all day, one of the last things I usually want to do when I get home is to sit back down at a computer and keep coding. More often than not I'm spending my time outside of work reading tech blogs such as these, searching for new concepts and soaking in the as much as I can. It's from this that I can then form my own ideas and my own theories and often try to put these into practice at work.
It's not about how much screen time you put in, it's about how much heart you have. Do you love your family any less if you don't see them every day? Probably not. It's because it's a part of you that you know you can always go back to. It's not escaping, it's just finding out what works best for you.
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Do I code outside of work? Rarely. Mostly it's just testing out some theories rather than full-blown side-projects.
Does that make my any less passionate about programming or the industry I'm in? Not in the least.
I'm at work surrounded by coding, design, architecture, business discussions all day, 5 days a week, most days over 8 hours. While I don't always have time to be dabbling in the latest and greatest, I'm always looking for how I can improve. I'm always testing out new ideas or finding a day here and there to work on some not-quite-necessary, but would bring benefit to our daily work types of tasks. This is what keeps me refreshed and recharged.
After sitting and staring at a screen all day, one of the last things I usually want to do when I get home is to sit back down at a computer and keep coding. More often than not I'm spending my time outside of work reading tech blogs such as these, searching for new concepts and soaking in the as much as I can. It's from this that I can then form my own ideas and my own theories and often try to put these into practice at work.
It's not about how much screen time you put in, it's about how much heart you have. Do you love your family any less if you don't see them every day? Probably not. It's because it's a part of you that you know you can always go back to. It's not escaping, it's just finding out what works best for you.