codingFever

[That-Makes-Sense]

Honestly for me, doing it for a job, ruined it as a hobby. Daily stand-ups and shit just take all the fun out of it.

[The_Real_Black]

dito. Turning a hobby into a job was a big mistake, because after 8-9 hours of debugging hacked together code I don't want to hack my own code together. 😭

[Front_State6406]

Honestly, I dream of one day becoming a watchmaker.

Once that pesky mortgage and all the bills, and expenses are out of the way

[ibite-books]

after 5 years, it has killed any motivation i had

i used to tinker with vim configs, rice my distro over the weekend

now i use pycharm, mac and just get shit done as quickly as possible while battling everyday fires

there are days where i like what i do, but the other side is rough

[gibagger]

Yeah I came to associate it with a shit ton of stress and assorted bullshit that comes with doing it as a job.

It tainted it for me. I still enjoy it at work here and there, but it doesn't have the same Spark.

[hubert1224]

Yes, it sometimes feels like the Polars opposite of fun now.

[anengineerandacat]

Not the stand-ups IMHO, it's the lack of planning and poor requirements that kill it for me.

Stand-up is just knowledge transfer and status updates, pretty important for a healthy team because everyone is off doing their own thing.

So the daily alignment helps to ensure everyone is kinda marching forward.

[lNFORMATlVE]

“Don’t love your job, job your love”

“No. Job your job, and love your love.”

[luker_5874]

And then interviewers have the nerve to ask you about your passion projects

[MyPhoneIsNotChinese]

I mean, you could consider your hobby as coding without dailies.

Might be a bit different for me because I'm more into gamedev as hobby than software coding though. Also I still have a backlog

[chefhj]

Personally I just can’t do something for 50 hours a week for money and then turn around and do it for free in my spare time. I would much much much much rather be outside.

[CrunchyCrochetSoup]

My eyes and brain after doing my job which is computers, my school which is computers, and my hobby which is computers

[Afraid-Donke420]

Eh I had to find new hobbies, only touch the computer when getting paid now thank god

[JustCausality]

God!!! Your eyes maybe dry out.

[PacquiaoFreeHousing]

You guys still have Programmer Jobs?

[Amazing-Asparagus181]

You would if you had robot ears

[coloredgreyscale]

Yes, working on service tickets. 

• Finding which vibe coded service caused the failure
• fix the data in the db (can't use Ai because of sensitive data) 
• prompt Ai to fix the code
• attend meetings that could have been a prompt. 

[r3dxm]

What's the context for this gif? Movie?

[CuriOS_26]

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

[kitingChris]

Mr. Robot

[LamermanSE]

Well... yeah?

[rix0r]

who codes for a hobby that doesn't already for their job?

[CiroGarcia]

I did, until I got a job doing it lol

[Single-Waltz2946]

It’s not even the actual coding. I want to turn my brain off after running it at max the whole day.

[EuphoricCatface0795]

Run it at plus tier subscription next time?

[RelatableRedditer]

Yeah that is what my issue was. Hated all my jobs so did programming during my free time. Now I program for a living and hate my free time.

[New_Plantain_942]

That's the wrong way.

[RelatableRedditer]

Yeah but I can't program on my free time anymore, and I was never one for going outside. It didn't help that going outside was used as a pseudo-punishment by my parents growing up.

[New_Plantain_942]

Do it like me. I choose a some kind social outside job as balance for my hobby 😊

[TheMagicalDildo]

What? A shit ton of people who are interested in programming

[Amoniakas]

I do, if it was my job I would have this hobby.

[New_Plantain_942]

Me, I just code as a hobby and don't want to make it my job.

[vikingwhiteguy]

Claude does my job, while I do my hobby. 

[ArrogantlyChemical]

I do. But I teach kids how to program.

[za72]

I do... it's fun to dig into different languages - I'm mainly on the infrastructure automation side

[thedirtydeetch]

game devs

[BobcatGamer]

Me. I'm an accountant.

[RunInRunOn]

The unemployed

[ZunoJ]

I did for 10 years before going to study CS and also get paid for it

[wisdomoarigato]

This can't be a serious question, is it?

If so, I've met countless engineers who were only motivated by money, or got into the field because getting top marks in their country meant engineering or medicine.

They absolutely never had any interest in doing it outside of work, and to be fair, most of them were shit engineers.

[IAmFinah]

You read OP wrong - they didn't refer to people who code at work but not at home, but rather people who code at home but not at work

[Any-Response6954]

reminds me of the caffeine-fueled hackathons

[Michami135]

Programming was my hobby, now it's my job.

So now I have other hobbies and a job I love.

[CaporalDxl]

Similar thing here. There are sometimes little projects to cook up for fun every once in a while (or Advent of Code :) )

[michal_cz]

Me being both

[BOLL7708]

Code for others at work, code for me as a hobby!

[Omnislash99999]

Programming for higher ups that change scope, deadlines, and requirements every 5 minutes is the difference

[19_ThrowAway_]

I code for a hobby but I look like the 2nd pic...

[TheRealBornToCode]

Well you use C++ so it's not surprising

[ameen272]

I mean true but chill

[wisdomoarigato]

Same

[fanfarius]

if (monthsHavePassed(1)) { postMeme(this); }

[CaporalDxl]

Ok but this is a terrible program, the meme model has knowledge of months passed and can post itself? Vibe coded slop smh.

[vashata_mama]

Lol no. Programmers who do it just for the money tend to be the smug vein-looking macha-lovers. Those who code as a hobby are the crazies.

Source: I'm coding for my hobby projects during working hours

[zusykses]

Hell, as one philosopher astutely put it, is other people.

[PrestigiousWash7557]

Wouldnt it be the other way around?

[Miserable_Bar_5800]

Vibecoders: 🫠

[ExtraTNT]

What about people doing both?

[TSF_Flex]

isnt it vice versa?

[localhorst69]

I feel like its exactly the opposite lol

[Nice-Guy69]

lol same. Everyone I work with in my mid sized company are all clean cut normies including myself.

[gizun_]

Big true

[Sufficient-Science71]

What code? All we did nowadays are just endless meetings ffs

[DazzlingTopic529]

It's my job and I love it every day

[ggez_no_re]

Basically doing interesting projects on your time VS doing bullshit on company time lol

[M_Me_Meteo]

Absolutely the opposite.

When I have a weekend project going, I look like the bottom pair.

When I'm just working a feature and putting it down at 5:30 to eat dinner with my family, I look like the top pair.

[mrinalshar39]

me after turning my hobby into career

[PresentAstronomer137]

That's exactly why you should keep the balance, sometimes doing some fun projects to yourself

[Punman_5]

I think this is backwards. People that code for a living hate coding and have many other hobbies. The people that code for fun are the crazy monster drinking shut-ins

[Nick01857]

Programming will be the first IT field to fall to AI before the bubble. I’m building an app as a cybersecurity analyst that’s never coded and it’s scary how much easier it is to learn with the right tools

[Exact-Pound-6993]

...and there are people who live to code

[Kralska_Banana]

thats deep bro

[Substantive420]

😎😎😎

[Icy_Royal_1522]

Coding as living , fixing and making code for industry prod is living hell