I wanted to comment about how stupid it is to read books about programming for hours every week, but then I saw there is nothing about books in the original post.
Why it is so much stupid? It was not about books only but I think every programmer have to read a lot - tutorials, books, forums, articles... I do read a lot and this make me overworked too, as a coding do ...
Reading stuff is not stupid, but reading books for HOURS EVERY WEEK is that a bit, in my opinion.
#define overworked
I think people who enjoy their jobs / work will happily do a lot of hours in it, those who don't like their job will likely get stressed, irritated and / or angry if overworked. Take games for example, it is very easy to dedicate enormous amount of hours playing a fun game, even staying up past your bedtime or making time for the game. This is because you are having fun, if you are having that much fun in work, you will likely not care or even complain about the hours.
How many hours a week you spend coding, and
how many hours a week you spend reading about programming?
I have far too much fun programming so much so that I gave up playing games for it and by the looks of it this probably wont change, I usually do approx 98 hours a week (researching and programming), but I don't consider it 'work', I do other stuff too like working out, cooking and ofc playing with the cat. I'll admit I no longer have a social or sex life, cant even remember the last time I was in the sun and unless it is technology / political related (mentioned in parliament) I have no idea what's going on in the world. A little too much info I guess, my point is, if you are having fun the time will fly by and you wont really care to question it and happily sacrifice hobbies / tasks so that you dedicate more to that work.
I think if a person is feeling overworked, they need to find out what it is that is making them feel like that, it isn't always the hours that makes them feel overworked
I do like programming but i feel overworked, As I said im working recently for my own purposes and no pressure on me, but I am working consideribly long times a weak (with no pressure), say 10 hours a day 70 weak but i still feel overworked -it is I feel some kind of pain, Im tired or about that and my head is aching (maybe it is not to acute but it is somewhat constant strain)
There was the times it was worse, this summer I work less than usual
- So I wonder if programming can be relaxing occupation at all, or this pain is unavoidable. I am not so great health so maybe this is related to that, I do not know, But I am searching for opinion like this.
As to game playing this is quite different - gaming is mostly relax for me and it do not pain me like a programming do - thought in very rare cases of maniac playing when you will play 3 days and doing not to much something else it can hurt you too - but I am not sure if this is quite releted (programming is harder there always hard cases tu understand and so on)
As to free time, I am swimming in the water quite often and feel
somewhat relaxed by this but this is weak relax to be true, Society life could relax me more but Indeed I have no to much good society and mostly program - and it is hard pain. I do not have to quit it but it is pain .
Reading stuff is not stupid, but reading books for HOURS EVERY WEEK is that a bit, in my opinion.
But why ? I do not meant books only but learning stuff of many kind
#define overworked
I think people who enjoy their jobs / work will happily do a lot of hours in it, those who don't like their job will likely get stressed, irritated and / or angry if overworked. Take games for example, it is very easy to dedicate enormous amount of hours playing a fun game, even staying up past your bedtime or making time for the game. This is because you are having fun, if you are having that much fun in work, you will likely not care or even complain about the hours.
How many hours a week you spend coding, and
how many hours a week you spend reading about programming?
I have far too much fun programming so much so that I gave up playing games for it and by the looks of it this probably wont change, I usually do approx 98 hours a week (researching and programming), but I don't consider it 'work', I do other stuff too like working out, cooking and ofc playing with the cat. I'll admit I no longer have a social or sex life, cant even remember the last time I was in the sun and unless it is technology / political related (mentioned in parliament) I have no idea what's going on in the world. A little too much info I guess, my point is, if you are having fun the time will fly by and you wont really care to question it and happily sacrifice hobbies / tasks so that you dedicate more to that work.
I think if a person is feeling overworked, they need to find out what it is that is making them feel like that, it isn't always the hours that makes them feel overworked
I do like programming but i feel overworked, As I said im working recently for my own purposes and no pressure on me, but I am working consideribly long times a weak (with no pressure), say 10 hours a day 70 weak but i still feel overworked -it is I feel some kind of pain, Im tired or about that and my head is aching (maybe it is not to acute but it is somewhat constant strain)
There was the times it was worse, this summer I work less than usual
- So I wonder if programming can be relaxing occupation at all, or this pain is unavoidable. I am not so great health so maybe this is related to that, I do not know, But I am searching for opinion like this.
As to game playing this is quite different - gaming is mostly relax for me and it do not pain me like a programming do - thought in very rare cases of maniac playing when you will play 3 days and doing not to much something else it can hurt you too - but I am not sure if this is quite releted (programming is harder there always hard cases tu understand and so on)
As to free time, I am swimming in the water quite often and feel
somewhat relaxed by this but this is weak relax to be true, Society life could relax me more but Indeed I have no to much good society and mostly program - and it is hard pain. I do not have to quit it but it is pain .
Ya I dont think you should be feeling like that. Especially if its every day. Like in my current job or in college I do plenty of work but I always make sure Im sleeping enough and if one week I get a bit less sleep I make up for it at the weekend. And that gets me through each day in the right state of mind to work well.
And relaxing occupation might not be the right word but enjoyable certainly can be as others said. If you enjoy what you do youll be more likely to work more.
Ya I dont think you should be feeling like that. Especially if its every day. Like in my current job or in college I do plenty of work but I always make sure Im sleeping enough and if one week I get a bit less sleep I make up for it at the weekend. And that gets me through each day in the right state of mind to work well.
And relaxing occupation might not be the right word but enjoyable certainly can be as others said. If you enjoy what you do youll be more likely to work more.
Ya I would like to feel better (I become depressive), but had no
clue how to do it. It is not so bad maybe, but programming it is a constant pain for me (as I said many times). 'Enjoying it' is not a good word too, I probably do not 'enjoy' it - I do it becouse it is very interesting and I think it is worth spending my time, but feel like im overworked and do not enjoy almost anything in a long time :/ Hope it will not go into a worse - it last quite long of not enjoyable slowly painfull times of programming :/
ya I think you should try fix that. If you dont enjoy it and you doing it is making you sick and depressed then theres something wrong and should be sorted. Thats just my opinion but spending 10 hours a day on something you arent enjoying and is actually detrimental to your health is not good.
Reading stuff is not stupid, but reading books for HOURS EVERY WEEK is that a bit, in my opinion.
But why ? I do not meant books only but learning stuff of many kind
Reading books isn't the only way to learn. Often, it's not even the best way. Learning by doing FTW.
Right now, I'm hardly overworked. I quit my day job after saving up some money and now I'm taking it easy, working on some projects just for fun. I just submitted my first app to the app store. Eventually I'll have to get some full-time work though.
I find the term overworked hard to define.
I normally work 50 hour weeks (up to 80 depending on my work load). I rarely feel overworked unless the tasks I'm working on don't interest me, or I'm stuck on a task.
In other jobs I've worked I felt overworked when working far fewer hours.
Well as i said, I notice that when I program much I go out of relaxed state - recent times I tried go out from this unrelaxed state and for example today at least I managed to be noticably more relaxed and feel ok (but It take a whole two months of lounge - and i worry i could do much work in this time) But this was probably needed - Now i still do not know if go back to work or take a lounge yet some time..
