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Keeping Programming Fun?

Posted by Cliff on from the preserving-your-sanity dept.

nb caffeine asks: "Having recently graduated, and now working as a developer, I've discovered that after 9 hours of programming at work, I have little interest in coming home and working on my personal programming projects. I've become upset with this fact, because while I was in college, I spent quite a bit of time working on personal projects for my own use. I also noticed this trend during my summer internship, and I have a feeling that it isn't going to get any better. It's not to say that I don't get to work with cool technologies at my job, but they aren't anything that I would pick up in my spare time. So, how do my fellow programming geeks balance work related projects and personal projects? Or, if you've already discovered that after 9 hours of programming, the last thing you want to see is a computer, what hobbies does the Slashdot crowd enjoy after they've ruined their hobby by turning it into a job?"

6 of 144 comments (clear)

  1. The Simple Joys by cryptor3 · · Score: 4, Funny
    You have to go back to the simple joys in life.
    10 PRINT "HELLO"
    20 GOTO 10
    1. Re:The Simple Joys by Cut · · Score: 4, Funny

      You had me at 10.

  2. Easy by gtrubetskoy · · Score: 5, Funny
    So, how do my fellow programming geeks balance work related projects and personal projects?

    They work on personal projects while at work.

  3. Re:Consider quitting.... by calethix · · Score: 2, Funny

    "coding C during the day, and doing crazy stuff in Ruby at home."

    I don't have a Ruby at home you insensetive clod! Oh you meant the language?

  4. Re:Tough it through for a while by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


    >I don't know one who is quietly desperate about the
    >easier hours, the bigger house and bank account,
    >and improved lifestyle for their family.

    I think you have (at the same time, no less)
    fully agreed with the grandparent and Thoreau, and
    totally missed their point.

    Bravo. You will do well in Management.

  5. Re:Tough it through for a while by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wasn't it Henry David Thoreau in Walden who said that most men lead lives of quiet desperation?
    No... I think it was Pink Floyd:

    Hanging on in quiet desparation is the English way...
    ;)