I think I just don't understand how people can have their hobby be related to their work without imploding. I had a cousin who became a proffessional chef and he cooked for fun. That job almost overwhelmed him because he had no escape from its stresses.
I would worry about that happening to me with coding
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genuinely dont understand why people spend their christmas doing extra unpaid work
This is like whining that a journalist doing a crossword puzzle is "unpaid work" because they use words at their day job.
None of these puzzles are remotely like actual work. It's for fun. Can't you just have fun for a couple hours?
I think I just don't understand how people can have their hobby be related to their work without imploding. I had a cousin who became a proffessional chef and he cooked for fun. That job almost overwhelmed him because he had no escape from its stresses.
I would worry about that happening to me with coding
I'm curious how many programmers encounter these sort of silly challenges during work.
It's as much work as crosswords are for linguists from my point of view. It's just a fun brain teaser, and a good excuse to try out new languages.
Doing puzzles with friends is better than doing puzzles (or, god forbid, monopoly) with family.
fair enough I find if I make programming a hobby as well as a job I burnout and implode