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People are seeing software engineering, and let's be honest it's 90% web development, as a way of life. You must dream code, eat spaghetti code and drink code flavored tea (or coffee).
They are acting as if your life starts and ends with code, there is nothing else that you can have interest in.
And what I find really sad is that this mentality is affecting the young kids around the block. Nowadays you find 13 y/o's thinking that the only thing they must do is code. They need to be a full-stack developer, DevOps engineer, startup owners, freelancers, and everything before they are 18.
This romanticization of programming 24/7 will create a new wave of burned-out people trying to keep up with the trend.
I don't think we're special, but their are advantages.
If your passion is cars, engines, or really any physical activity, then spending your days taking apart and building new engines would be an excellent past time for learning and advancing in your field.
Running rescue training excersises with helicopter drops and rapid water would be perfect to do on your off hours.
If you have that science lab in your bedroom up to snuff, then it would be good to try that other experiment you always wanted to do.
Do you find the way humans communicate fascinating, maybe even work as a translator. Picking up yot another language, studying the latest slang development might be something that advances you.
Software development has some nice advantages over these other passions. It is easy obtainable, information is readily available, it is practically a zero risk activity, mistakes are not financial costly. Entry itself is actually pretty low in terms of cost, assuming you live somewhere with electricity and you had parents that had a computer.
This greatly increases the ability for passionate competition to drive your need to advance. Yeah this could be unfortunate for those doing not out of passion, but we've always been fighting the fight we're someone or something could put someone out of a job.
Why you should use your off hours to do the same things you do in your job? I get it, you're passionate and so on, but that doesn't mean you need to dedicate all your life to that passion - that's called obsession, actually, and it's not a good thing (even if everyone is telling you otherwise)
You don't have the right to dictate what I or anyone else does on their free time. And while being obsessed may not be a good thing for you, without looking at someones specific situations, it would be impossible to conclude that it is in fact a problem.
Someone mentioned 14 year olds. This is a great time to have an obsession and fixated. The problem comes in from those without the obsession trying to "keep up" and that is exactly the point. The barrier of entry is low that the competition is saturated with passionate, obsessed people.
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People are seeing software engineering, and let's be honest it's 90% web development, as a way of life. You must dream code, eat spaghetti code and drink code flavored tea (or coffee).
They are acting as if your life starts and ends with code, there is nothing else that you can have interest in.
And what I find really sad is that this mentality is affecting the young kids around the block. Nowadays you find 13 y/o's thinking that the only thing they must do is code. They need to be a full-stack developer, DevOps engineer, startup owners, freelancers, and everything before they are 18.
This romanticization of programming 24/7 will create a new wave of burned-out people trying to keep up with the trend.
I don't think we're special, but their are advantages.
If your passion is cars, engines, or really any physical activity, then spending your days taking apart and building new engines would be an excellent past time for learning and advancing in your field.
Running rescue training excersises with helicopter drops and rapid water would be perfect to do on your off hours.
If you have that science lab in your bedroom up to snuff, then it would be good to try that other experiment you always wanted to do.
Do you find the way humans communicate fascinating, maybe even work as a translator. Picking up yot another language, studying the latest slang development might be something that advances you.
Software development has some nice advantages over these other passions. It is easy obtainable, information is readily available, it is practically a zero risk activity, mistakes are not financial costly. Entry itself is actually pretty low in terms of cost, assuming you live somewhere with electricity and you had parents that had a computer.
This greatly increases the ability for passionate competition to drive your need to advance. Yeah this could be unfortunate for those doing not out of passion, but we've always been fighting the fight we're someone or something could put someone out of a job.
Why you should use your off hours to do the same things you do in your job? I get it, you're passionate and so on, but that doesn't mean you need to dedicate all your life to that passion - that's called obsession, actually, and it's not a good thing (even if everyone is telling you otherwise)
You don't have the right to dictate what I or anyone else does on their free time. And while being obsessed may not be a good thing for you, without looking at someones specific situations, it would be impossible to conclude that it is in fact a problem.
Someone mentioned 14 year olds. This is a great time to have an obsession and fixated. The problem comes in from those without the obsession trying to "keep up" and that is exactly the point. The barrier of entry is low that the competition is saturated with passionate, obsessed people.