This resonates with me. I love my work, I really like what I do, I think it's mentally challenging, interesting, and important for our world and civilization and I believe I'm compensated well enough. But it's tiring ok? And all I can ever do on weekends is lying on my bed watching netflix. I work 9 to 6 and work out intensely for 2 hours every week day. By the time it's saturday I'm both physically and mentally exha…
> ...if I died alone.
An alternate viewpoint on this - perhaps it will help you:
> Isn't that just something WordPress developers say? I don't know, I don't ask for their take on the market. However, I've consulted with businesses where "We use Wordpress for X" is incredibly common to hear and they don't have problems with it, even if it wouldn't be my first choice of a platform. > But not "the majority of business needs". The majority of businesses are small or medium-sized, where Wordpress with…
https://www.wpinventory.com Wow. Ok. Some businesses even use it for inventory management. Can't work out whether that's slightly better or slightly worse than a spreadsheet. I guess there are all kinds of options on the market and someone somewhere has whipped up a WordPress version.
I've seen payroll, scheduling and appointments and a Blackboard-esque system built on top of Wordpress.
Barrier to entry is low and there's a glut of cheap Wordpress developers out there, too, so companies that don't have a budget for an entire IT department can still get by with hiring a few engineers when they're needed.
You are seriously looking down on the folks with their phones? How else are folks supposed to overcome the absolute drudgery and hate they have for the activity they are doing? I'd argue these folks are more motivated than the folks like you: Regardless for their hate for the activity, they are still doing it. It is the same reason I have headphones with some sort of entertainment when I walk or use treadmills. The s…
I assume GP is referring to people who arent actively working out, but floating around the gym mostly playing on their phones, checking social. As though time spent in the gym was the point rather than the exercise itself.
Yeah this. I see people camped on machines, just sitting there on their phones. They're not resting between sets. Just sitting there. Yesterday it was a guy pacing in front of the dumbbell rack, talking loud enough to hear over my headphones, not exercising at all.
> How else are folks supposed to overcome the absolute drudgery and hate they have for the activity they are doing? By trying some other activity instead of wasting their time and other people's.
So, someone being active on a stationary bicycle while reading is wasting someone else's time somehow? I've never found an enjoyable workout activity. The closest I've come to it being bearable is walking as transportation - and sometimes that leads me to staying home rather than do social things. It is horrible without headphones and horrible in the rain or snow. All of these "workouts" and "exercise" have mind-numb…
We moved from a 7 day working week to a 6 day working week about 2000 years ago, and to 5 days about 100 years ago, it's time to move to 4 days. In addition the 5th day should be used for lifelong education, people should be expected to learn about all the new things that have been invented since they left school, or refresh what they're not good at.
In many rural societies work and leisure were constantly intermixed. An craftsman/shopkeeper/farmer could spend 110 hours a week on the workplace while doing 20 hours of active work.
This was also the point of the Luddites, they weren't against technology, but against working in a factory 8 to 8 instead of working from home.
So, someone being active on a stationary bicycle while reading is wasting someone else's time somehow? I've never found an enjoyable workout activity. The closest I've come to it being bearable is walking as transportation - and sometimes that leads me to staying home rather than do social things. It is horrible without headphones and horrible in the rain or snow. All of these "workouts" and "exercise" have mind-numb…
You're doing it wrong then.
Or perhaps I simply do not find any joy in such activities. Just because you find some enjoyment here doesn't mean that others do.
Many software developers are 9 to 5-ers meaning when they get home they don't do any more programming and don't do programming on the weekend either. They do most of their learning while on the job. These programmers are of course mediocre at best and typically work at slow paced large companies with lower pay but they're satisfied with their work/life balance and there is nothing wrong with that. If the author is co…
> These programmers are of course mediocre at best This is very elitist and not true. 40 hours a week for 20 years is more than enough to be considered “good” at the very least.
Afraid not. The "good" programmers/engineers/whathaveyou are, more often that not, the ones that proverbially "live and breathe" their craft, and have done so for a very large amount of, how should I say, "units of actual work-effort." Pulling all-nighters on personal projects just for the fun of it, constantly learning and improving for the sheer bliss of the challenge and seeking of knowledge, these are the "good" programmers. They are putting in concentrated, heavy effort, which is far in excess of a mere 40-hours of unfocused, drone-tier non-effort per week. It is also why there are teenagers who can sprint circles around big-corporate code monkeys sporting 35 years of "experience."
> These programmers are of course mediocre at best This is very elitist and not true. 40 hours a week for 20 years is more than enough to be considered “good” at the very least.
> for 20 years Yes 20 years, but the majority of developers don't have anything remotely close to that many years in the field. I've worked with many developers over my career and the ones who do programming on weekends and off-hours tended to produce significant more output than those who didn't. Anybody who puts any effort to improve themselves and skillsets by working off-hours means they're rising above mediocrac…
^This. First Slashdot, then Ars, now HN filled with an ever-increasing amount of mediocrity. But, I passed bootcamp! I have more structured hours of experience sleeping at my desk and slacking off in the nap room -- that makes me a better programmer, I promise! If it wasn't covered in a test or in my assignments, it doesn't exist! The Office Space meme has come full circle, two decades later.