If you didn't get paid for it, would you still write code? [modified]
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[edit] ... assuming you have another source of income, enough to get along.[/edit] Quick poll. 5 for "yes" or "I don't get paid to begin with", 1 for "no", ---------------------------------- Me: definitely.
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| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server.modified on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 4:57 AM
Without a doubt. I'm in this for business and pleasure, so why not pleasure alone? Sometimes these days because I have other priorities I don't get to do as much fun coding as I would have wanted, but I assure you, once those pressures are eased off, I'll get to spend more free time on fun stuff like coding :)
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I am surprised. I would have thought you too interested in other things. Personally although I like sw engineering I wouldnt do it unless it had a purpose. It is like an engineer endlessly designing and building things no one wanted. I would much rather build a light aircraft. Or a ground effect aircraft, or build a cylinder head to a new design I thought of many many years ago with rotary vales. I also have in mind a large planing catameran. I would also do a lot more with music,, and cooking. I would rather run a restaurant then code for no reason. Coding makes money. And I do it well in order to make more money.
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Coding was a hobby long before I made money at it and I still enjoy it - even after 327 years. :-)
fat_boy wrote:
I would have thought you too interested in other things.
Like what, for instance? I'm curious as to what you're thinking. I also have many other hobbies and sports - if I didn't need the money I might increase my time with those and lessen my time with programming but I would never stop doing it. Will definitely restore a classic car at some time - maybe a Lotus or Jensen Healey or E-Type.
fat_boy wrote:
I would rather run a restaurant
I've always fancied owning a hotel or restaurant but I'll never do it: too much like hard work!
me, me, me "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" Larry Niven
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Because thats what I do irl, I have a stable job and I write code for family,friends aka fun projects, and sometimes employers who can't afford the market rate. So mentioning the ones that count as projects/experience should be mentioned even though I don't get paid for them. Why make a resume you ask? because its the attached price tag of a person which needs to be updated constantly.
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[edit] ... assuming you have another source of income, enough to get along.[/edit] Quick poll. 5 for "yes" or "I don't get paid to begin with", 1 for "no", ---------------------------------- Me: definitely.
Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server.modified on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 4:57 AM
Yeah!! :thumbsup: However depend upon the mood. So, 4 from me, (-1 for the mood) ;)
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I will, but not for the person paying me ;P
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not for the person paying me
Exactly!! :cool:
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leppie wrote:
not for the person paying me
Exactly!! :cool:
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Gandalf - The White wrote:
Exactly!!
Hmm, that made me think about what I said. Logically, I will then code for the people that dont pay me, and if the person is not paying me, then that person is included in the list of 'beneficaries'! I should rephrase that probably to: "I will, but not for the person that is suppose to be paying me" :)
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[edit] ... assuming you have another source of income, enough to get along.[/edit] Quick poll. 5 for "yes" or "I don't get paid to begin with", 1 for "no", ---------------------------------- Me: definitely.
Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server.modified on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 4:57 AM
Absolutely NOT.
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[edit] ... assuming you have another source of income, enough to get along.[/edit] Quick poll. 5 for "yes" or "I don't get paid to begin with", 1 for "no", ---------------------------------- Me: definitely.
Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server.modified on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 4:57 AM
Definitely. I love what I do and even if I may move to sales, business and other management stuff, I will continue to write some code at least.
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Coding was a hobby long before I made money at it and I still enjoy it - even after 327 years. :-)
fat_boy wrote:
I would have thought you too interested in other things.
Like what, for instance? I'm curious as to what you're thinking. I also have many other hobbies and sports - if I didn't need the money I might increase my time with those and lessen my time with programming but I would never stop doing it. Will definitely restore a classic car at some time - maybe a Lotus or Jensen Healey or E-Type.
fat_boy wrote:
I would rather run a restaurant
I've always fancied owning a hotel or restaurant but I'll never do it: too much like hard work!
me, me, me "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" Larry Niven
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Because thats what I do irl, I have a stable job and I write code for family,friends aka fun projects, and sometimes employers who can't afford the market rate. So mentioning the ones that count as projects/experience should be mentioned even though I don't get paid for them. Why make a resume you ask? because its the attached price tag of a person which needs to be updated constantly.
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I don't think so. If I could get to a point of being self sustaining, I would write code if it was for something worthwhile, like working on a website for a charity like World Vision. I would not do it for fun tho, I'd rather play guitar and work in the garden or kitchen.
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About same I suppose. I can't bring myself to code outside of work, it's just not interesting enough. The only thing that I would probably be interested in writing right now is to write a program for my android phone that controls foobar2K player on my PC, but only because no one else has written such a program already :laugh: Even though I want to write it, I don't any time to do it, I can't get to it, other stuff just gets in the way, too busy.
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[edit] ... assuming you have another source of income, enough to get along.[/edit] Quick poll. 5 for "yes" or "I don't get paid to begin with", 1 for "no", ---------------------------------- Me: definitely.
Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server.modified on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 4:57 AM
Yup sure would, when you hobby is your work it just rocks. I code because I like to be paid, I also code because I enjoy coding!
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[edit] ... assuming you have another source of income, enough to get along.[/edit] Quick poll. 5 for "yes" or "I don't get paid to begin with", 1 for "no", ---------------------------------- Me: definitely.
Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server.modified on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 4:57 AM
Probably not, I have other, far more exiting hobbies.
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[edit] ... assuming you have another source of income, enough to get along.[/edit] Quick poll. 5 for "yes" or "I don't get paid to begin with", 1 for "no", ---------------------------------- Me: definitely.
Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server.modified on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 4:57 AM
Absolutely, positively. There's nothing else in life I'd rather do. /ravi
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[edit] ... assuming you have another source of income, enough to get along.[/edit] Quick poll. 5 for "yes" or "I don't get paid to begin with", 1 for "no", ---------------------------------- Me: definitely.
Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server.modified on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 4:57 AM
Yes, that's pretty much all I've been doing for the past year. That and taking long naps.
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Absolutely, positively. There's nothing else in life I'd rather do. /ravi
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I'm not sure how someone could vote you down on what you would rather do - maybe your wife? :rolleyes:
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| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server.That's one of things I love about democracy - the inalienable right to express your stupidity. :-D /ravi
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I'm not sure how someone could vote you down on what you would rather do - maybe your wife? :rolleyes:
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Coding was a hobby long before I made money at it and I still enjoy it - even after 327 years. :-)
fat_boy wrote:
I would have thought you too interested in other things.
Like what, for instance? I'm curious as to what you're thinking. I also have many other hobbies and sports - if I didn't need the money I might increase my time with those and lessen my time with programming but I would never stop doing it. Will definitely restore a classic car at some time - maybe a Lotus or Jensen Healey or E-Type.
fat_boy wrote:
I would rather run a restaurant
I've always fancied owning a hotel or restaurant but I'll never do it: too much like hard work!
me, me, me "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" Larry Niven
digital man wrote:
Like what, for instance? I'm curious as to what you're thinking.
Travel for one. I know you like to go abroad so I wold imagine that you would want to do this more than create some relatively useless program.
digital man wrote:
Will definitely restore a classic car at some time - maybe a Lotus or Jensen Healey or E-Type.
Yeah, there you go. I always fancied a Triumph Bonnevile to do up. SOmething simple, small, but interesting. Or a BSA Gold Star perhaps. (Used to actually drive a prereg Triumph Herald. It really was a dog. I guess I kind of got fed up with old cars then!)
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I'd probably spend most of my time doing whatever else was my main occupation, but I'd definitely still program, as a hobby in its own right, but also to support my other hobbies - for example I've been known to write scripts to run on my Canon camera.
Probably, for friends/family or just learning. But I have several hobbies and those take time. As do children.