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POV of a cyclist riding on a road with the caption “when you treat your hobbies like your main quest and your real job like a side quest, it makes life feel completely different.”

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[–] 50 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This damn side quest is taking too much time of what is available before credits and the rewards are not worth it

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    My main job is my hobby. Problem is there’s a bunch of assholes there calling for meetings and getting in the way with other nonsense, various red tape and other bullshit.

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  • I love programming and I did it as a job from 1995 to 2019. Absolutely the only time I enjoyed it was when I was left completely by myself to work entirely alone -- no managers, no designers, no junior developers, I did everything related to application production, deployment and maintenance completely by myself. These were also the only times I produced anything that was worth a shit and was actually used by people.

    The dominant paradigm in software holds that it's fundamentally a team sport that requires an absolutely rigid division of labor. I know that this is not so and that in very many cases software is more like golf: just you and a heavy bag of clubs and a fuck ton of rough and sand traps.

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  • [–] 43 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Aka work to live, not live to work

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago

    One of my early mentors said that he was a full time musician that worked in software during the day to pay the bills. After all this time, I get what he means.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Ah, crap. I have 500 hours in Fallout 4 and still haven't beaten the main story yet due to side quests. Guess I never get to go home.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    Great! Here's another transmitter for another rooftop...

    Great! Here's the coordinates for another piece of tech to find...

    As someone who just started playing FO4 for the first time because it was single digit cheap and now have 85 hours vested: I feel that pain lol.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    ez gg when you don't need to work all the time to save any money and you don't have kids that take up all the rest your time, wp wp

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago*

    As someone that turned a programming hobby into a career… it fucking sucks. I don’t have enough time in the day to get back to hobbies, so when the work day ends, zoning out to video games late into the night becomes my main quest. Can’t complain but this full-time job side quest fucking sucks, especially with AI muscling into everything and sucking the oxygen out of the room.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    I treated hobbies like the main quest and started playing video games during the work day. You're right! Life feels totally different.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Wouldn't work, as I am already treating my side quests like my job and my main quests like my hobbies.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Everyone hates doing their daily's

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Problem: I ignore everything not related to the main story

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Well, I usually focus on the side quests 😓

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Fucking dailies gold grind blech

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    What bicycle is dis

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    What's the alternative? How do other people live?

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