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by andrewfromx 496 days ago
I remember going to a psychiatrist for the first time when I was around 30 and I told him "well there is fun code and unfun code". I was explaining how I hated my job at the time I had to write unfun code all day long but my side projects, that was fun code.

He looked at me like I was literally a crazy person and said, "Ok, explain more what you mean by un-fun code..."

At the time I sighed and thought oh geeze, this is so painfully obvious how do I even explain the difference. BUT looking back now, nope. He was right. That is crazy. It's all just code. The people and your attitude make all the difference.

Before enlightenment: write code, fix bugs. After enlightenment: write code, fix bugs.