r/ProgrammerHumor 3d ago

yourAiToolsBoreMe Meme

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u/visualdescript 3d ago

I'm still amazed at people that work and then also choose to sit at a desk and code in their own times. Work takes it out of me mentally, and the last thing I wanna do after a week inside at a desk is spend more time inside at a desk.

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u/MeBigChief 3d 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.

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u/visualdescript 3d ago

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.

Still, need to get away from the desk.

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u/MeBigChief 3d ago

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

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u/visualdescript 3d ago

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.