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I liked this. Programming is not easy and it's not always pleasurable, people should be open about it(maybe?). As a more programmer-programmer, what sucks, to me, is that I can't play anymore. Since I code professionally I find it really tough to keep on programming like 100% of the time I'm awake. Really, after 8 hours stressing and trying to deliver it feels like my brain is dry and can't take more, then surely I get the feelings of "isn't there more to life?" I guess if I worked 6 hrs/day I'd probably be a happier and better programmer. It is a strenuous activity, when I get to it after a day of work, lets say 1,5 hours to two hours of doing stuff in my spare time, generally it's not enough to finish anything, or learn something to "I'm satisfied with this" level(I also gave up on backbone) For example, I've already gone through a book on Android programming besides plenty of articles and plus messing around .. But in trying to build some useless shit just to develop it, in two hours I'll barely have anything new ready that I'm proud of, mostly no progress at all(Java btw), if the useless shit doesn't get done, it puts me off of doing the really cool shit I'd really like to do, there's not enough time in life to play with code and work with it and it gets me bummed, I'm 26 and I'm no longer at the "no really, programming is the coolest thing possible!" phase, I have other interests like reading, music, women, beer, videogames(basically given up on this already), soccer(my legs are not strong enough anymore, so, halted), drawing(seeming like a better escape for creativity than programming nowadays), hanging out with friends... I don't honestly don't know to do about this, I guess I wish I could do whatever I want... ;/ |