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Choosing Work or Life as a Developer
Keeping up with the Programming times — or not
I don’t like to spend all my time working. Not that saying this stops that eternal nagging at the back of my head that I need to be doing something. Especially given the breadth of things that developers have to be at least sentient about. Functional programming? AI? Machine Learning? OOP? Inheritance? Frameworks out the wazoo, it’s a lot to handle.
Something to boost my career, something to make more money, something besides just spending my time doom-scrolling shorts and reels and whatever other stupid names the market department at my favorite content mills provide.
The ideas for the perfect side project don’t always come. I think that may be part of it. Maybe one day I will have a great idea for a business, maybe that day will never come. I try to strike a healthy balance between neurotic and obsessed, possibly draining my mental state and relaxed and assured that what I’m doing is putting me on the path to starting a business or being a tech lead somewhere.
I know it’s not perfect, but here are some of the things I do throughout my week that hopefully are putting me in that positive direction. (I still doom-scroll more than I would like to).
