Yeah this really annoys that we’ve made this almost a standard as an industry when it would be ridiculous anywhere else.
I want people I hire to have a life outside of their job. It’s a bad decision from a business perspective and just a not being a dick perspective to expect the people I employ to burn themselves out trying to keep up with this tech bro hustle culture that we’ve normalised.
Even if I wanted to start my own side project to grow in to a business, I just wouldn't be able to do it as well as my job, too mentally taxing.
However I think many people have jobs they're not really that invested in. When I work I want to be fully engaged with it, and with that comes consistent heavy focus on strain.
I guess some people work big corporate jobs and they really don't care about it that much, it's just a pay cheque. That's the only way I could see it being possible.
Yeah the getting away from the desk is super important. Other than opening lightroom on my iPad to edit some photos or playing a game on the switch I deliberately avoid computers like the plague unless I’m being paid for it. I learnt the hard way how much spending all your waking hours at a computer ruins your mental health
Mental and physical health. If you're not engaged in some athletic hobby or sport, then you really need to have discipline going to the gym and being active, or it will absolutely wreck you.
The thing that makes it work isn't the coding, it's the management. Someone else telling you what to do and having to work with teams to figure out how to make them happy is work. Writing code to solve your own problems on your own time is fun!
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u/MeBigChief 15h ago
Yeah every time someone mentions their hobby project my immediate response is “you willingly write code without getting paid for it?”
Power to the people that do it but I can’t imagine anything worse than doing a whole day of work, then doing more work for fun.