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
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.
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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
I'm just a "hobby coder" anyway. I programmed in dBase II like 20+ years ago and actually got paid for it. But I cannot make myself work in an office environment. I lasted a couple of years and I was outta there. Nowadays it's a fun hobby, and I would never mess it up by doing it for a living again. :)
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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
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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
I started programming about 30 years ago for fun. When I first started to get paid for it, it was also fun. Now it basically sucks. And when I get home from work I have absolutely no desire to do any of it on my own. So yes, I long for the day when I no longer have to do it for pay but can do it for fun again. Mark me down for a 5.
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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
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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
I don't get paid for it but I've coded quite a bit, currently spend about 10 hours per week. I consider it a hobby, Have a project I'm focused on, it's big it's bad, its ambitous, it will probably take me ten years to complete it :)
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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
yes, plus i'd probably enjoy it again.
Pete
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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
No. I can't really imagine anything I'd want to write code for that someone else has already done or is doing. I'm a maintenance programmer not a "developer" so that probably has a lot to do with it.
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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
Being the only one to follow your instructions (so far): 4. I get ideas from time to time and get excited enough about them to put off other activities for a while. Not new algorithm ideas, just new applications, and just for a while, not for a long while.
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As in, "I don't really have anythign to say, but I want to leave a smart-ass reply?" I actually considered making this an option ;)
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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
in the time being I would die to change my career path to be more business than technical, but sure I'll write codes, honestly I luv to code :)
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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
Strangely enough I consider programming to be an outlet for my creative side. I never expected it to become a big part of my job. In fact, it isn't a requirement of my position, just a helpful tool. But my game programming now takes the place of what used to be candle making and plastic embedding.
I'm not a programmer but I play one at the office
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Yes, I do. I get paid to write code at work. Then I go home, and I write code that I don't get paid for. Not the same stuff - work projects aren't interesting enough, at home I try out new things, or languages, and have occasional projects that I never finish. Often what I do at home leads into future work projects. I first started playing with WPF at home because I thought it was cool, then a project came along that was suited to what I'd learnt at home. If I wasn't a professional developer, I would still continue the home coding, but maybe I'd finished those projects once in a while.
Simon
Agreed!
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that's only for now. kids only stay kids for about 15 years. then you can get back to your hobbies :) it's niiiiiiiiiice:thumbsup:
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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
The very first time I saw a calculator I desperately wanted one. But it was $50 and an impossibility. Same thing when I saw my first computer. A C= Pet in high school. I had NO idea even how to turn it on but I was gonna be DAMNED if I let any one else TOUCH it. I started programming in high school on that Pet during lunch. Eventually, saved enough for a Timex Sinclair ZX81 and learned it's basic and Z80. So I coded before I had a real job. And I'll keep coding after I retire. And in between, I can't find a job INTERESTING enough to save my life. So I code at home making pianocheater[^] It's my baby now that my kids are olden. Programming jobs have paid my mortgage pretty well. They may have been boring sometimes, but then, what job isn't?? So, umm, YES !!