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if you are poor i think you can work 18 hours

18 hours? thats sick 😊 this is not good for your health. And what about other activities in life? Or maybe one day you code 18 hours and another day is free for you? Or a real programmer must have no life at all?

My secret is the “3-C-programm”:

Coffeine
Concentration and
(Johnny) Cash

😊

@cahva: Oh, I so DO know what you mean 😊
Just as I am on a right track with something, someone asks me to login on the phone to help out… And it falls apart :( Soon I hope, change will come.

Ontopic: as someone said, if programming is your passion and your drive - 10 hours a day is _nothing_!
Think of it this way; what do you really LOVE to do? Could you do that whole day long? 😊

There are some tasks in life I hate and I really struggle to do them correctly. But I do understand people who love doing those things that they could go 10+ hours straight doing it.

Cheers,
Smilie

Think of it this way; what do you really LOVE to do? Could you do that whole day long?

Ok, but many people want to work for 8 hours and actually they want work less - the rather go surf facebook or play games if possible. So it is normal. Only few can have fun working 10-18 hours I guess.

Same thing as has been said, it’s two things for any work: 1-passion for what you are doing, 2-breaking tasks up regularly… being in the zone is great but I find if I let myself stay there too long, I can feel burn-out for the next week :(

Smoke breaks.

I don’t know too many programmers, but my best friend is one of those people that easily sits in front of her computer for a minimum of 14-16 hours per day.  The funny part about it is that she is one of the happiest people I know and very rarely seems to be tired. 

She claims it is the challenge of accomplishing a task that drives her.  Although she is employed as an IT consultant and does get paid for some of her work, most of what she does is on spec and she really doesn’t expect to get compensated for most of what she does.  She is definitely a very strange person.

Hi guys, don’t forget to take some exercises, like jogging or swimming, or gymnasium. It’s very refreshing, healthy, and very good for programmer’s brain.

Sunshine?  :gulp: I think I’ve heard of that stuff. And that “Fresh air and exercise”. Sounds like a disease.

if you really love what you are doing like coding..you will not notice that its already night outside..lol