Force yourself to eat nasty whole foods for a week, I guarantee you won't accidentally get too many calories.
Egg whites, plain fat-free yogurt, lean ground beef, regular oatmeal... UGH! I'll pass on seconds.
1) Use downtime at work as a chance to learn. Since you're stuck there anyways, grab an sdk that interests you and plug away. Your boss would probably like it better if he/she saw an IDE open on your desktop, not myspace.
2) Get another hobby. Juggling two hobbys will help you value your time more. I rarely do any programming at home mostly because I'd much rather be doing something else. Granted I have lots of downtime at work, I try to do some hobby-coding while I'm there.
Which brings up a question, is hobby-coding at work bad during downtime? I downloaded the DirectX SDK and I'm teaching myself a little game programming. I don't see this as an issue if this doesn't interfere with my work. It actually keeps me off the net and makes the day go much faster. Although, I'm a government employee;)
I gave RAC a shot right out of college when I was trying to find a real job. No one will accept your bid unless you have some positive feedback, so I ended up doing some research project for $5... took me 2 hours.
The problem is, its almost a full time job trying to find a project on there. Assuming your skills are limited, you have to read the entire project description to ensure you have the right tools. The bidding process sometimes takes weeks (or even worse, never goes through). After all that waiting you find out you lost to someone that'll work for a buck fitty an hour. Then the process starts all over again.
The only way they're going to make games less "accessible" to minors is if Walmart puts them out of reach on the top rack and not randomly tossed on the bottom rack. They had ZERO copies of Civ 4, but plenty of F.E.A.R. Oh well looks like your kid is buying the next best thing.
*brags* Well I never get carded
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Force yourself to eat nasty whole foods for a week, I guarantee you won't accidentally get too many calories. Egg whites, plain fat-free yogurt, lean ground beef, regular oatmeal... UGH! I'll pass on seconds.
1) Use downtime at work as a chance to learn. Since you're stuck there anyways, grab an sdk that interests you and plug away. Your boss would probably like it better if he/she saw an IDE open on your desktop, not myspace.
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2) Get another hobby. Juggling two hobbys will help you value your time more. I rarely do any programming at home mostly because I'd much rather be doing something else. Granted I have lots of downtime at work, I try to do some hobby-coding while I'm there.
Which brings up a question, is hobby-coding at work bad during downtime? I downloaded the DirectX SDK and I'm teaching myself a little game programming. I don't see this as an issue if this doesn't interfere with my work. It actually keeps me off the net and makes the day go much faster. Although, I'm a government employee
I gave RAC a shot right out of college when I was trying to find a real job. No one will accept your bid unless you have some positive feedback, so I ended up doing some research project for $5... took me 2 hours. The problem is, its almost a full time job trying to find a project on there. Assuming your skills are limited, you have to read the entire project description to ensure you have the right tools. The bidding process sometimes takes weeks (or even worse, never goes through). After all that waiting you find out you lost to someone that'll work for a buck fitty an hour. Then the process starts all over again.
The only way they're going to make games less "accessible" to minors is if Walmart puts them out of reach on the top rack and not randomly tossed on the bottom rack. They had ZERO copies of Civ 4, but plenty of F.E.A.R. Oh well looks like your kid is buying the next best thing. *brags* Well I never get carded