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On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Fallert, Adam Christian wrote:
If you spend 15 hours per week on something, and you do that for 40
years, you've expended 15 years of full-time work on that thing. That
is a lot of effort. Will it be worth it?
We as people work to live. We don't live to work.
The idea is not that you should work more, it is just that you should
consider the consequences of your habits. It's your choice. Do you
really prefer to spend those 15 years of effort on a video game than to
spend them on home repairs, learning French, writing a novel or learning
to play the piano? It's your choice but I'm just pointing out that by
playing the video game you are choosing not to learn French, not to fix
your drywall, not to write that novel and not to learn to play the piano.
Although it is important to have a career path that you enjoy. I really
enjoy programming, and working with technology. I bring that home with
me after work at times as well because it is fun.
In addition to being fun for you, all the work you do is improving your
programming skills and thereby increasing the probability of your future
success as a computer programmer.
Mike
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