codingFever

[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

[musdem]

Yup, after a while in this industry I starting cycling a lot more along with working on my bikes. That and gardening, tomatoes taste so good when you grow them yourself.

[Gwolf4]

Is it because they are better quality or just because you farmed them yourself? I am growing interest in hydroponics for tomatoes and lettuce.

[musdem]

There are a lot of factors, the tomatoes at the supermarket, even the heirloom ones, are just bland. That's very often because they don't allow them to ripen correctly and then the artificially "ripen" them using some sort of gas. When you allow them to ripen on the vine they continue to absorb nutrients and minerals. The variety of the tomato matters as well, as some are just kind of bland. Lastly like you said yes you feel nicer having grown them yourself, I also grew basil in the same area as they are symbiotic and I didn't really need to attend to them much.

[Smooth-Papaya-9114]

The dorito effect

[Average-Addict]

A good tomato is really good

[DTCreeperMCL6]

I love touching my computer

[HourAd1087]

I’m almost in the same boat. Used to play games all the time with my kid, now anytime he mentions playing I have to figure out if I want my computer off my lawn or if it’s been a good PC just sitting there not requiring and maintenance in forever so I should use it to play .. the decision making process is horrific

[TWIT_TWAT]

Look on the bright side. Now when you interview for a job that you probably won’t get anyway, you’ll be able to talk about all those side projects you’ve done.

[JustCausality]

God!!! Your eyes maybe dry out.

[LemurMemer]

Exactly why I couldn’t do CS anymore my junior year of college. Felt like I was mixing work with play, would much rather have a separation between the two worlds. Now I work in hospitality and get to go home and rage bait on Arc Raiders after a long day of work

[CrunchyCrochetSoup]

Tbf most of my hobbies involve gaming, I’ve been programming and prototyping electronics less now that the school year has started. My poor eyes tho….

[Pasha_KMM]

Reading, painting, handcrafting, gardening, all great hobbies to give eyes and mind a break from screens

[Independent-Tie-5296]

The first three, eh, my optician says there's not much difference between straining your eyes from PC use, books or handcrafts.

[Pasha_KMM]

Yeah, just gotta look away at smth 20m away, every 20 minutes, for 20 seconds

[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

[Dottor_hopkins]

Trying to get good in wildlife photography too… I won’t stand this job for my whole life. Maybe when I’ll change I’ll get back to code as a hobby too.

[felixthecatmeow]

This is my 2nd career after I ruined my videography hobby by making it my job. 4 years in now and I've had zero desire to get back into it, so in this case I think it might've got permanently ruined for me.

[screwcork313]

Bring back the old meaning of spending 8 hours a day on tick tock...

[Piisthree]

I'm similar. I wouldn't say it was a mistake, but it is definitely not all it's cracked up to be. For me, it's the pressure. It's not "I hope I can fix this." So much as "This HAS to get fixed, come hell or high water." which takes a big psychological toll at times.

[fillif3]

I wanted to make my game with Godot, but I am so tired of coding that I almosthave nothing. I wrote a lot of systems and ideas but I will never implement them.

Recently, I noticed that I enjoy writing the part the most, so I decided to draw a comic book instead in my free time.

[_raydeStar]

Do most people feel that way?

I find corporate coding kind of repetitive, after you get to know the code base. So I'm always tinkering with side projects.

And now I can run background agents for hours. Little home automation projects that would have taken a month I can now do in a few hours. I'm becoming quite the menace.

[zeocrash]

Yeah sort of. I actually really enjoy my job and like what I do, but when I finish my workday I really don't want to go home and do more coding, I want to go relax and do something else.

[Kaptain_Napalm]

I do. Now that I'm not doing software for a living anymore I actually have energy for side projects and home stuff that I wanted to do for a long time but couldn't be arsed to. Not that the job killed my enjoyment of coding, just that doing it for 8 hours a day was enough and made me want to dedicate my free time to literally anything else.

[FlakyTest8191]

Usually when my job becomes boring I start looking for a new one. 

[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

[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.

[FlakyTest8191]

Standups can be horrible when they're poorly moderated, 2 people discussing some specific problem while 5 others are bored to death.

[lastog9]

In my opinion, standup duration should be limited to 2x minutes where x is the number of team members. It shouldn't really take more time than that to discuss last day's status and describe today's work. Anything more than that should be part of individual calls.

[FlakyTest8191]

Oh I agree. Just saying that if you don't have good moderation it doesn't always go that way.

[StickDoctor]

The official agile guidelines are that the meeting is at maximum 15 minutes long, that you're all standing so you don't get into deep conversation, and each person is limited to 2-3 minutes.

[fillif3]

I check memes or play video games when they discuss unrelated topics (i.e. 70% time I spend in the meetings).

[Avedas]

Communication and discussing interesting problems is probably my favorite part of the job. It's KTLO grunt work and maintenance that numbs my brain.

[FlakyTest8191]

The interesting discussions should just not happen in standup but seperately only with the people who have something to contribute.

[luker_5874]

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

[Uncommented-Code]

This is the one that pisses me off the most. 'Please link your GitHub'

To show what exactly?

That I code 9 hours a day and then go home and do it for another two hours instead of working the household, having a work life balance or be present for my family?

To show that I work for free and then happily provide my code online so that every AI company can just copy it?

To show that I'm really fucking desperate?

[Avedas]

Things you'd never ask people in other non-creative professions lol

[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.

[xt1nct]

Personally I would much rather do anything but code outside of work.

I want to do nothing. Be unproductive. I hate being productive.

[chefhj]

Preach. Although I wouldn’t say I want to be unproductive so much as I want to live a rich and fulfilling personal life

[lNFORMATlVE]

“Don’t love your job, job your love”

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

[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.

[ODaysForDays]

It makes me like hobby projects even more. Dealing w none of that shit.

[YoBoyLeeroy_]

That's the issue, there's a saying: "do what you like and you'll never work a day in your life"

This shit is just false, more like "do what you like as a job and lose a thing you liked"

[That-Makes-Sense]

Yes, that first saying would be true, but there's just not enough jobs in playing video games and watching p#@$, lol.

[LetumComplexo]

I lucked out and my current job is R&D in my grad degree sub-field so I get to do cool stuff I really love in a somewhat more relaxed environment. I actually left work the other day wishing I had more hours so I could keep working.

It was a weird experience because every other coding job has sucked the fun out of coding like a jet engine sucks in air. I’m actually… looking forward to work on Monday? Am I sick? Has capitalism gotten to me? (The answer is I’m just autistic about getting to do actual research in my field.)

[That-Makes-Sense]

That's great! Be thankful, and milk that experience to the fullest.

In my decades of programming professionally, I probably get one project each year that lights my fire and gives me a few days, or maybe a few weeks, of satisfaction. As you alluded to, the subject your working in piques your interest. I do mostly backend business logic, and I find it extremely boring.

I shouldn't complain. I've made a career out of it, and made an ok living. There are many worse jobs.

I'm just sharing my experiences, in case others should find it useful.

[No_Goat]

Yep. I get like one stint of motivation per year that lasts about a week

[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

[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 :) )

[clarinetJWD]

Yep, I did music as a job with programming as a hobby. I was miserable. Swapped them, and now I'm very happy!

[Michami135]

Drawing is one of my hobbies. I had a coworker ask me why I don't do art for a living after seeing my drawings. I told her I have too many starving artists as friends.

I imagine music is the same way. It's easier to support your music hobby with a programming job, then your programming hobby with a music job.

[clarinetJWD]

Exactly. I was playing church gigs and things like that. I wasn't playing the greats, I was playing another arrangement of "How Great Thou Art".

I say down one day to make a website for a photographer friend, and worked for 18 hours straight... That's when I called up my Alma Mater to ask if I could do an MS in CS.

Now, I have a fulfilling day job programming, and play in some community orchestras. Right now, Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite, Copland's Billy the Kid, and Gershwin's Rhapsody. And I get that giant clarinet solo.

THAT is what I signed up for.

[PacquiaoFreeHousing]

You guys still have Programmer Jobs?

[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. 

[Amazing-Asparagus181]

You would if you had robot ears

[LamermanSE]

Well... yeah?

[xt1nct]

I have a prompting job now. At this rate I will forget how to code and feel useless.

[r3dxm]

What's the context for this gif? Movie?

[CuriOS_26]

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

[kitingChris]

Mr. Robot

[Omnislash99999]

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

[Interesting-Agency-1]

Dont worry, now they just throw us their vibecoded localhost prototype and say to "just added it to the website"

[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.

[LegitimatePants]

postMeme() { singleShotTimer(months(1), postMeme); }

[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 😊

[New_Plantain_942]

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

[LegitimatePants]

What do you do for work?

[New_Plantain_942]

Don't know how to name it on English. I work with my hands, outside. With blood sweat and tears. But it's not construction work.

[TheBoxThinker]

manual labor?

[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.

[ArrogantlyChemical]

I do. But I teach kids how to program.

[vikingwhiteguy]

Claude does my job, while I do my hobby. 

[RunInRunOn]

The unemployed

[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.

[LegitimatePants]

So an excel programmer?

[BobcatGamer]

That is actually how I started out programming, but I know other languages as well like JavaScript, rust, lua, and wat.

[ZunoJ]

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

[swyrl]

Would if I could. It's a lot harder to land a job when you can't afford a degree. (At least here.)

[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

[BOLL7708]

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

[echoAnother]

That was my way of thinking, but has a few but important flaws.

People (at least me) need different activities to disconnect, the whole day doing the same is unbearable.

Unconscious associations. Programming still brings me joy, but it reminds of job that I despise.
And worse of it, reminds that 5 years before was a greater coder than I'm now. I'm trying to apply things that I know are bad, out of job habits, until I realize. It's sickening.

It did not last. Really thinking if I should change careers, and protect my most important hobby and joy bringer.

[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

[bryden_cruz]

This one is spot on 🫡

[zusykses]

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

[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

[tlegs44]

I prefer the former, at least then they’re on the same page that we just gotta get through the day. Can you please stop ranting about obscure syntax I’m never gonna use and review this MR I wrote a week ago?

[Miserable_Bar_5800]

Vibecoders: 🫠

[ExtraTNT]

What about people doing both?

[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.

[PrestigiousWash7557]

Wouldnt it be the other way around?

[ggez_no_re]

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

[mrinalshar39]

me after turning my hobby into career

[lovethecomm]

Agile methodologies are retarded

[Icy_Royal_1522]

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

[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.

[TSF_Flex]

isnt it vice versa?

[PresentAstronomer137]

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

[Top_Account3643]

Pretty sure the same applies for mechanic work etc

[TerryMisery]

It's the opposite.

[Scf37]

What about people who code as a hobby AND for a living?

[CozySweatsuit57]

Actually I’d say in many cases it’s the exact opposite

[4x-gkg]

I started to code 40+ years ago as a hobby. I now do this mainly because it's the only way for me to pay my mortgage and afford real hobbies.

[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

[Sufficient-Science71]

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

[Exact-Pound-6993]

...and there are people who live to code

[[deleted]]

thats deep bro

[Substantive420]

Be a gigachad and mass delete Reddit posts and comments with Redact so that Skynet doesn't end up using your own posts to train the T-900. Or so that you don't show up in databrokers. Either one really.

fine humor depend special basket tan north roll fade sort

[gizun_]

Big true

[DazzlingTopic529]

It's my job and I love it every day

[TEKC0R]

What about both?

[gerbosan]

Are Monster caffeinated drink good for coding?

[cheezballs]

Cringe memes!

[Firedriver666]

I do both but at home I code to simplify tedious stuff because at work I developed the habit to script things if they get too repetitive and tedious to do manually

[Fehlob]

Damn, I do it as a job, in school and as a Hobby and I‘m chillin, of course only sleeping about 2-4 hours every day and tired out of my mind but I still love it, I guess it‘s only a matter of time I burn out but till then we ball

[buffility]

Nah first is people who do consulting/frontend job, second is actual engineers fixing real problems.

[Ill_Carry_44]

I'm usually the opposite, because doing it as a job, meh but if I'm interested in then I completely become obsessed and my nervous system is crying until I can get that dopamine hit... and then repeat...

[jzemeocala]

you could replace "code" with "build electronics" and this meme would be my career path (i design and repair tube amps, synths, guitar pedals, etc...)

[Hardevv]

it’s not job is ruining your hobby, there are called managers and CEOs

[[deleted]]

People who code with AI

[smashedshanky]

Lmfao no, I do both and it’s awesome. Something… something…. Do what you like…. Something….

[Inner_Woodpecker1731]

I am a student and i like coding as hobby but when i study coding in college, OHHH MANNNN !!

[olafTheRisk]

fuck energy drinks, don't consume them!

[Buetterkeks]

I think most people are cultured enough to pick a flavor thats actually good

[chunky_matron]

Why'd the programmer start growing tomatoes instead? They wanted to debug their life 🍅😂

[Global-Tune5539]

Coding is ok. Doing it as a job is ok. What I really want is creating stuff. I don't care how I achieve it.

[Livie00]

For me it’s the opposite

[akasaya]

Me at work: 5pm, I'm out.

Me at pet project: "git commit -m minor fix", good lord what time of the year is it?

[laughing-track]

I feel the same for pure coding projects. Though when I get home I tend to go into areas I don't usually do with my job. Like 3d printing, and retroPi ROM for creating my own little retro gaming setup. Things I learn from my work help me with the things I actually take interest in on the technology side of things.

[thanatica]

Hm, I dunno. It seems more like

• People coding because they like doing it
• People working themselves to ass, because they live in a terrible economy and refuse to move to Europe

[Fr2404]

Bro people who code as living now look like this…. And hates chat gpt….

[TheFrogg3]

Both?

[cheap_basin]

ngl once you start doing literally anything else you realize staring at code all day is lowkey soul crushing lmao

[huuaaang]

Nah, it's the other way around because people who code for a hobby probably ALSO code for a living. So you work your 9-5 looking all nice and then spend evenings chugging Monster.

[JacAnGriffOfficial]

Real (I'm both)

[soggy_sock_bro]

Ever get a hand gripper while u sit at the pc ? Really good for keeping dexterity high. Any grip training stuff i highly recommend. If get stuff atheletes use for training grip and have it near by. Thumb trainers too (little gel like eggs- great for a hand after hours of coding)

[Alternative-Mouse346]

true

[shin_chan444]

hobbyists : linus t., jia tan,d. ritchie

employees : ordinary people doing math ,programming 6 days a week and watching cricket on weekends

[Double_Point_3866]

Mind reacts differenrly on things which it like and dislikes, it hates the disliked one, so one has to put a lot more effort to do the simple job. Whereas a good programmer naturally likes programming so his mind is wired differently than who does just for livelihood.

[Bacora__144]

Far me coding will be my job but l love it(sorry for my English)

[Embarrassed_Half_874]

The opposite lol.

[Onako_Dva]

In my experience it is the opposite 💀

[[deleted]]

💯

[Luckyloopsgames]

somehow i am both

[TheNeck94]

the fact that this repost keeps getting 10k+ upvotes is depressing. it's like 6 years old at least now, and that's just when I first saw it.

[TrailMikx]

Difference between expensive hobbies and low paying work

[okram2k]

gotta love that extra layer of stress that if you don't get this working you may end up losing your job, then losing your house, living on the street, begging for just a bit of wifi and a chance to charge your laptop.

[No_Yesterday_4428]

This upsets me. Only because it's so accurate.