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Re: Ask HN: I'm Tired of Hacking. What Do I Do? Please Advise.

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Post by stanleydrew »

mikeyur wrote: post #82
uptown wrote: post #18

Get a: a) Girlfriend b) Dog c) A hobby that doesn't involve electricity Allow your job to become just one part of your life ... not what defines your life.

'Get a Girlfriend' isn't as easy as it sounds for everyone. I'd say get a dog to start with. I got a dog last September and I can't imagine getting rid of him now. It just makes life more worth living. You wake up in the morning a bit happier because your dog is smiling and wagging his tail for you to go make him food. And it gets you outside more because he has to be walked 3+ times a day which helps give you a brea…

Often getting a dog leads to getting a girlfriend, since you'll be outside more and have an instant conversation starter.

Re: Ask HN: I'm Tired of Hacking. What Do I Do? Please Advise.

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Post by chanux »

uptown wrote: post #18

Get a: a) Girlfriend b) Dog c) A hobby that doesn't involve electricity Allow your job to become just one part of your life ... not what defines your life.

a) & b) only if you are ready to treat them well while youl are iving your geeky life. I sometimes have problems with less attention to them. Both a) & b) need love & care which I personally have problems providing, while I'm in hack mode. (Just an advice)

Re: Ask HN: I'm Tired of Hacking. What Do I Do? Please Advise.

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Post by mahmud »

Radix wrote: post #90
mahmud wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometimes you see danger but its magnitude doesn't hit you until someone else points it out. I was 26-27, I had my vaccines done, I had some cash and I am African by birth, so none of these "problems" that Western expats were facing could touch me, it is my third-world and I will be fine! Yyyyyeah, nice try. My new girlfriend with a woman's common-sense was quick to point out to me the danger I was in. I had dabbled…

Reading your second comment in this thread leaves me wondering if it would be safe for an american to travel the same as you did. I had wanderlust a few years ago and reading your post makes me want to go wandering abroad again. I would go to South America, but out of curiosity, is Africa or the Middle East safe for Americans? [Edited for better communication] REPLY: Ah, so then in a sense, it isn't safe. It would be…

I was deliberately courting excitement. You can safely stay in the tourist circles and be A-OK.

Re: Ask HN: I'm Tired of Hacking. What Do I Do? Please Advise.

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Post by jganetsk »

tjic wrote: post #23

It's spring. Go hike the Appalachian trail all summer. You living expenses will be food + replacement socks + fuel for your camp stove. Four months from now, you'll be wonderfully destressed, and will have barely touched your savings.

I first read destressed as distressed, and wondered why anyone would want that.

Re: Ask HN: I'm Tired of Hacking. What Do I Do? Please Advise.

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Post by GeneralMaximus »

chez17 wrote: post #63
uptown wrote: post #18

Get a: a) Girlfriend b) Dog c) A hobby that doesn't involve electricity Allow your job to become just one part of your life ... not what defines your life.

Getting a dog has completely turned my life around. I wasn't uber depressed before, but I had some days where basically looking at the news made me so disgusted to be a human, I could hardly work. I was working at home, living at home, hanging out at home, etc... Get a dog, get outside 3 or 4 times a day. Having a little creature be so happy to see you every time you walk through the door he can barely contain himsel…

Seconded.

When my dog wants to go out for a walk, he annoys me until I get off my ass and take him out. You can argue it out (and win!) with your wife/parents/friends when they tell you to go out, but you can't argue with a bouncing, yapping dog. My dog is the reason I take 2-3 walks a day.

Also, having him around just makes me happy :)

(See http://twitter.com/ankur_sethi/status/1942297810 and http://twitter.com/ankur_sethi/status/1938415759)

Re: Ask HN: I'm Tired of Hacking. What Do I Do? Please Advise.

#98

Post by jganetsk »

oliverkofoed wrote: post #9

You're gonna live a long time, you've got time to change direction. Find a junior job doing something completely different, or even start studying something, anything. Only things that can happen are that you become happy for you new job, or you fall back in love with programming. Another option: I know an illustrator who was getting tired of the endless line of demanding clients wanting the same old work, so she dec…

Yes. Most of the people giving advice on this thread assume that programming is, ultimately, the right choice for this person. It might just be the case that programming is the wrong profession.

Re: Ask HN: I'm Tired of Hacking. What Do I Do? Please Advise.

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Post by PStamatiou »

chez17 wrote: post #63
uptown wrote: post #18

Get a: a) Girlfriend b) Dog c) A hobby that doesn't involve electricity Allow your job to become just one part of your life ... not what defines your life.

Getting a dog has completely turned my life around. I wasn't uber depressed before, but I had some days where basically looking at the news made me so disgusted to be a human, I could hardly work. I was working at home, living at home, hanging out at home, etc... Get a dog, get outside 3 or 4 times a day. Having a little creature be so happy to see you every time you walk through the door he can barely contain himsel…

Well put!

I adopted a black labrador puppy last thursday. She's 3 months old and she's pulling me outside 6 times a day! We spent 2 hours at the park today because she kept laying down on the grass during the walk home. Quite a difference from those "err i havent been outside in 3 days" scenarios.

pics here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauls

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