The best developers have a good social life like a non-developers?
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The best developers have a good social life like a non-developers? I was thinking about this and about my career and I do not think so, programming life requires much study and time every day and consuming. You have to sacrifice many things many times: parties, time with family, time with friends. There was another topic here at The Lounge wondering the best developers are so sad: Frustated programmers (http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=3896109#xx3896109xx). What do you think?
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The best developers have a good social life like a non-developers? I was thinking about this and about my career and I do not think so, programming life requires much study and time every day and consuming. You have to sacrifice many things many times: parties, time with family, time with friends. There was another topic here at The Lounge wondering the best developers are so sad: Frustated programmers (http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=3896109#xx3896109xx). What do you think?
We cannot have a good social life like non-developers, aside of the study time we must put in to keep up with technology trends, the non-technical %#&$*@)#'s whom we have to develop software for have no concept of how constantly changing requirements in the middle of development is going to impact the project deadlines. And! They could care less.....
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The best developers have a good social life like a non-developers? I was thinking about this and about my career and I do not think so, programming life requires much study and time every day and consuming. You have to sacrifice many things many times: parties, time with family, time with friends. There was another topic here at The Lounge wondering the best developers are so sad: Frustated programmers (http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=3896109#xx3896109xx). What do you think?
Ha! Everybody is FASCINATED at parties with software guys. People can't get enough about all of my exploits with editors and compilers and os internals. Girls are Fascinated. Guys are Jealous. Why, heck, I'd choose this career path again-and-again JUST for the social power! Seriously, Call yourself a "Software Architect". You'll fool some of 'em with the "Architect"...
Do we weigh less at high tide?
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The best developers have a good social life like a non-developers? I was thinking about this and about my career and I do not think so, programming life requires much study and time every day and consuming. You have to sacrifice many things many times: parties, time with family, time with friends. There was another topic here at The Lounge wondering the best developers are so sad: Frustated programmers (http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=3896109#xx3896109xx). What do you think?
There's only so much time in a day. You can work 9-5 at some boring clerk job, and have lots of free time for partying, and need to get drunk every Friday 'cause your work sucks so much. You can work 15 hours a day hacking out code, and go home exhausted for a quick frozen dinner and 7 hours of sleep until you burn out. Or you can work a reasonable amount of time, about 8 hours most weeks with occasional emergency all-nighters, and have an in-between amount of time for your family or your friends. It's a dirty secret in the industry that the 40-45 hour/week jobs pay the same as the 60 hour a week jobs. So if you have the wrong kind of job, go find the right kind. The good jobs are harder to find, and people stay there longer, but they're there.
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The best developers have a good social life like a non-developers? I was thinking about this and about my career and I do not think so, programming life requires much study and time every day and consuming. You have to sacrifice many things many times: parties, time with family, time with friends. There was another topic here at The Lounge wondering the best developers are so sad: Frustated programmers (http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=3896109#xx3896109xx). What do you think?
I have a terrible social life and would prefer it to having a decent or good social life. I also pride myself on my programming skills and have to say there is little I like doing more than spending 13 hours or so on a project containing a new concept to me and finishing it, having real world applications. Although I am not a developer, merely a hobbyist
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Pete's wife loves you too?
I was HollyHooo but got tired of it and Sebastien was taken.
:laugh: Hilarious
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The best developers have a good social life like a non-developers? I was thinking about this and about my career and I do not think so, programming life requires much study and time every day and consuming. You have to sacrifice many things many times: parties, time with family, time with friends. There was another topic here at The Lounge wondering the best developers are so sad: Frustated programmers (http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=3896109#xx3896109xx). What do you think?
Acaz wrote:
What do you think?
Different people, different lifestyle and attitude. Diversity is a good thing :)
Acaz wrote:
The best developers have a good social life like a non-developers? I was thinking about this and about my career and I do not think so, programming life requires much study and time every day and consuming. You have to sacrifice many things many times: parties, time with family, time with friends.
No you don't, but you'll have to plan it. Make actual room on your schedule for family, you'll get more in return for an hour spent socially than an extra hour of learning. You don't have to keep up with everything, all at the same time. Take time to learn your trade, take time for your family. A brick a day builds a castle over time :)
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss:
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The best developers have a good social life like a non-developers? I was thinking about this and about my career and I do not think so, programming life requires much study and time every day and consuming. You have to sacrifice many things many times: parties, time with family, time with friends. There was another topic here at The Lounge wondering the best developers are so sad: Frustated programmers (http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=3896109#xx3896109xx). What do you think?
In general best developers have a very poor social life. I have a lot of colleagues who don't have girlfriend/wife or friends outside facebook. their meaning of fun is to have some drinks in a bar at saturday night, sometimes all alone.
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In general best developers have a very poor social life. I have a lot of colleagues who don't have girlfriend/wife or friends outside facebook. their meaning of fun is to have some drinks in a bar at saturday night, sometimes all alone.
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The best developers have a good social life like a non-developers? I was thinking about this and about my career and I do not think so, programming life requires much study and time every day and consuming. You have to sacrifice many things many times: parties, time with family, time with friends. There was another topic here at The Lounge wondering the best developers are so sad: Frustated programmers (http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=3896109#xx3896109xx). What do you think?
Hello I agree with you. I have a few friends which are better than me. They know even TCP commands and stuff like that. But they are still single. I have often heard not being the best from them, but I have a family. So who's better now? They will soon join the fate of the dinosaurs. Sure, if you spend your free time with soap opera (no, not SOAP and opera browser) instead of coding, then you have no social life either. This would be the badest combination. Regards