Programming
By Tony B.
@Emaren (9)
November 15, 2020 11:02am CST
How does one keep up the mental discipline to code?
I'd like to raise my game and accept one of these $140,000 job offers that comes to my LinkedIn every other month... but I get bored so quickly and end up smoking weed instead. Nursing the physical and psychological traumas. How do you sit at a computer and stare at code all day and not want to kill yourself?
I need to be more disciplined... Too much anxiety. Need #BasicIncome.
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@NewWorldOptimist (184)
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15 Nov 20
Same! I am a freelance writer. But, sometimes the idea of writing an article is so depressing, I can't focus. End up spending way too much time on social media writing novels to strangers. LOL For both of us, it's not our calling. It's not our passion. But, we have to keep a roof over our heads, right? I tried coding, but it as even worse. Do you like video games? Perhaps you could focus on coding for that niche.Or, is there another area of tech that really fascinates you? It might help give you more motivation to push through.
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@NewWorldOptimist (184)
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15 Nov 20
@Emaren Have we "met" before? Did you follow me over from Twitter?
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@Emaren (9)
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15 Nov 20
I've been fascinated by software since iOS 6. The aesthetics specifically. But is my human brain going to be needed to sit here and punch keyboard keys for the next 50 years?
I mean, god I hope not. Is the keyboard still going to be in use in 10 years? Again, I hope not. I mean should I really be saving money for retirement? For 2070? I really hope not.
I'm happy to hook up a robot wherever needed but I don't understand why we're not building Fully Automated Luxury Communism. Why we continue to wallow in this Post-Capitalist disgrace...
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@Emaren (9)
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15 Nov 20
Seems inefficient. The more time I spend at coding the better I get. I don't have children or a strong desire for an intense social life. Why wouldn't I code all day everyday and make a lot of money?
Why can't I is the more appropriate question. Maybe it's depression.
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