How is their personal life, family life, friends, work environment and everything that you can think that a programmer does throughout the day?
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How is their personal life, family life, friends, work environment and everything that you can think that a programmer does throughout the day?
I personally? My UNILEX as a programmer for now, it’s all good.
Unlike back then; During my transition time; from a copy writer, web editor, web designer, SEO research & analysis, to a programmer. I’ve been working for an average of at least 15 hours a day. With an estimated 80% of most time being 18.40 hours per day, till manifestation happened.
It came to a point in my life, where I had to passed some coupon days without taking shower, just to catch up with TIME, as I had limited time a day, just 24 hours to do 1 million things.
So, my personal life as a programmer, in terms of;
1. Family, wasn’t able to spend time with my nuclear family, talk less of my extended family. I could be like 6 months without talking with either of my extended family members, meanwhile I was just a WhatsApp call away from them. But believe me, I didn’t had a minute to spare.
I automatically distanced myself from my family. Not willingly, but had no option.
2. Friends, it’s the same situation as narrated above, about my family life.
3. Work environment, my work environment automatically became the love of my life, because I was more around that station than anywhere else around my residence.
So, the family life, friends and work environment is really a hard thing to deal with and/or managed as a programmer.
My daily life circle was like;
– Wake up (programmed or any time).
– On my computer (work for at least 15 hours)
– Sleep (my sleep time was between 4 to 5 hours).
With all these isolation, which reminds me as a programmed christian, with the culture and religion which teaches about the UNILEX of Jesus, during his time spent at the wilderness (unless you’re a programmed christian, you won’t be familiar with this statement).
Throughout these entire process of my UNILEX, it really made me “I AM WHO I AM” (this also appears in Jesus book), you may as well be familiar with this saying too as a programmed christian.
However, my entire life experience so far as a programmer, has been mixed with bitterness and sweetness, which off course now I realize and believe it’s the nature and natural process of human life transition.
So right now. My life as a programmer is like WOOO!!!
Fun
All of the above doesn’t leave much time for fun. To keep my sanity, I squeeze every bit of free time out of life to ensure that I’m not missing out on opportunities. Of course spending time with my family is fun, but for the sake of separation I’ll be excluding that time from this section (I feel I did the Family section justice). As part of my free time at home I enjoy building side projects. I love creating beautiful web applications that could benefit the lives of others. My passion is creating things for others through programming. I love the feeling I get when someone enjoys something I’ve made. I can’t get enough of it. I’ve started hundreds of side projects, “finished” a few (is a project ever really finished?) and am working on a promising one right now. I love it and can’t get enough, but I pace myself so that I don’t squander precious time with my family.
Friends
Thanks to the reality of what I’ve stated above, time with my friends has come to a halt as of late. I don’t boil this down to being a programmer, though. It’s much more aligned with a change in priorities. In the past year I’ve graduated from college, gotten married, and brought our first-born into the world. Combine those three with getting plunged into the working world and it’s a lot at once. I might be an edge case, and I hope to change it someday, but as of right now that’s life.
Monday to Friday: I work around 18 hours per day and I don’t even notice they were so many hours. I recover my dignity this way.
Friday night to Sunday: I hit vodka like there’s no tomorrow, probably do some crazy things in some club. I loose my dignity somewhere I don’t recall.
Repeat.
Corollary: Dignity is a renewable resource.
Family
For programmers whose work isn’t the most important area of their life, the family is. In my case, everything I do is motivated by my family. I don’t currently get to spend as much time with my wife and son as I’d like, but I hope to be in a position that allows me to spend more time them relatively soon. I’m lucky in that I work about 45 hours a week right now (some developers work much, much more) which gives me around 123 hours to spend elsewhere. Not bad relative to some programmers.
Work
Work for a programmer is their bread and butter. It’s usually where we get to program the most. In my case, I program, review/monitor analytics, look for new areas to collect data on, and implement all of the above each day. I also take breaks to keep my sanity and drink copious amounts of coffee (a lot of decaf, though, I like the taste). I tried to write a chronological hour-by-hour timeline, but failed since my days can vary wildly.
The work environment for a developer can vary from terrible to downright entertaining. Most companies know that a happy, comfortable programmer is an efficient one. The ones that don’t know this typically can’t keep programmers on board for very long.