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usually, it's the new kids on the block who can't hold on to their urge to spend every minute of their life at the desk and boast to friends how many hours they work each week and thus what important person they have become
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It frightens me that so much people wants to move away from programming during spare time.
I started coding by curiosity and it became a passion.
When I became employee and was coding all days, it killed my curiosity, I dropped computers at home... I wanted to forgot what I've done all the week.
And you know what ? I had a good boss, I had cool co-workers, I had nice customers. And I burnt out.
Curiosity and passion came back when I became self-employeed, so I could remove the line between work and personal life.
Now, I can find myself coding anywhere, anytime, spare time is spent reading about coding, personal development, financial literacy, or enterpreneurship. It is the very same thing I do at "work". And I don't care if it's during week end or work day.
Now I think that wanting to draw a straight line between "work" and "personal life" is a symptom of depression and burnout.
The only reason I don't work weekend is because my friends and family don't. It is not because I need to forget my week to start fresh for monday.
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What on earth is that? Is it like bacon? Can I eat it?
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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when you are senior enough in the corporate world you will have underlying and worker bees to do the job for you, until then
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Occasionally I'll lock myself away for a bit of coding if I need to get a head start on something new but I've come to realise that quality and productivity are to a point inversely proportional to the number of hours worked. You need to be able to switch off, it's a bit like dreaming: if you don't do either you go mad and eventually you die.
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I thought madness was required to be a good coder. LOL
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Its the time when am not coding or reading a technical article 
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality!!!
http://aniruddhaloya.blogspot.com
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I think that...
1. all my time is spare;
2. I almost always code;
1 & 2 => I code in my spare time.
Done!
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When I'm not studying for my accounting course I'm trying to write C code for my R-Pi
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As a hobbyist, all my coding is done during my spare time but not all my spare time is taken up by coding.
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PJ Arends wrote: but not all my spare time is taken up by coding.
Your family disagrees! 
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PJ Arends wrote: As a hobbyist, all my coding is done during my spare time but not all my spare time is taken up by coding.
Same here. Coding is my sole creative outlet.
XAlan Burkhart
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Sometimes I feel the drive, and I spend most of my free time coding, then when that wears off I stop for a while. Usually lasts a week or two at a time.
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I am that way too. It seems that I'll have an idea or something, and will spend most of my time for about a week or so programming. Then it wears off and I'll go back to playing games or watching movies in my spare time.
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In particular I have a project I started more than three years ago. After two months I had about ninety percent of the functionality functioning, but then I had second thoughts about the other ten percent so I stopped woking on it until I could make up my mind. However, in the last few weeks I've spent some time on it -- I altered the Data Access Layer to support SQL Server CE as well as SQL Server.
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Finally, a survey after my own heart! Wish I could 5 it!
/ravi
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Well it's not as if there is anything else to do?
Exceptions may be when one of your innumerable nieces decide to land themselves on you for a day.
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True, what else is there in life? 
I have only 2 nieces - both of whom are (very) bright and keep me on my toes. One is two years into the workforce and the other starts work after she graduates next June. They're also excellent bakers and take delight in ensuring I will never lose my developer tummy. I'm blessed, in so many ways.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: They're also excellent bakers and take delight in ensuring I will never lose my
developer tummy. I'm blessed, in so many ways.
I agree 
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I code, therefore I am
sounds religious doesn't it?
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I fear you're confusing philosophy[^] with religion.
/ravi
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don't fear for me, i am neither religious or philosophical
Indeed, I'm not even egotistic
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I do help out people with a few philanthropic and community service coding utilities during my free time. You can check out one of my chanting utilities here:
http://lavanyadeepak.co.nf/chanting/[^]
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep!
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but I do code in my spare time.
I had gained 20lbs so I took up hiking, backpacking, biking, kayaking to try and get in shape.
I've managed to lose some weight but the holidays have not helped a bit.
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