Understanding Lives of Programmers
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Hi. I design and implement Windows applications using C++. For the last 15 months, I begin to spend more time designing small applications, implementing, debugging, and maintaining C++ source code. The bottomline is I find myself spending hours at school during breaks, after school, and on weekends programming. Heck, I sometimes spend close to 8 hours on a Saturday programming and design applications. The irony is I have no job experience, i.e. I have never worked as a programmer. I am a year away from a CS degree. I would like some feedbacks on the life of a programmer be it real-world (employee, consultant, etc) or one who enjoys software design and implemention and does so while in college (like me). - How much free time do you have on a weekly basis. How about during weekends? - When you are away from the developer studio, do you think about the problems you are currently working on (I do)? I think my main concern is how to setup a life such that I can program, but still have time to do other stuff. I love software design and implemention. However, sometimes it stresses me out and takes up so much time that my life is Visual C++! Thanks, Kuphryn
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You must just MAKE the time for the other interests you may have. My second life is as a GYM rat... You can find me on a basketball court somewhere about 4 hours a day!!! It's the only time I never have thoughts about development issues. For me it is a way to completely disengage from the rest of my life. If you can find something that works like that for you it will pay off large. "That's just my opinion... I could be wrong." -pete
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kuphryn wrote: - How much free time do you have on a weekly basis. How about during weekends? I don't have free time. All my time is wasted, be it at work, at school, at darts, at drinking, at home, or staring unblinking at a blank white wall until The Colors come... Boredom embodied. kuphryn wrote: - When you are away from the developer studio, do you think about the problems you are currently working on (I do)? Depends... i tend to go on 2-3 month streaks where i'll eat, sleep, and breath programming - and then be unable to write anything decent for the next 4-6 months. Needless to say, this worked a lot better as a bored teenager than it does as a student or now professionally... but old habits die hard.
Shog9
The Man. The Legend. The Bored, Narcissistic, Whiteboard-marker Sniffing Programmer.
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