< keep the pours flowing

~eaplmx

Well, I've thinking something similar in my last vacations. And I have to share that I feel alike.

I like programming as a hobbie, but doing it for 8 hours daily, 5 days a week is overwhelming for me. I stop enjoying when I have to do it continously.

What has worked better for me is changing between something requiring focus for 1-2 hours, and then moving to calls or something else where I can be easily distracted. Now I'm more like a Production manager helping Jr. Programmers with specific stuff. I think I've found my place, but also I'm wondering sometimes.

And also I have those rushes of programming energy for work or any personal project for 2-3 days and it slowly fades away until I'm in a normal state. I think is our brain trying to escape from boredom, but as you say, after that rush you feel the hangover. For example I've avoided any Game Jams or Hackatons, as I feel extremely bad for same reasons. After working for a few days from Monday to Sunday for reasons, now I have to rest at least 1 full day to feel productive again.

Well, I don't want to complain, only be aware of how I'm currently feeling, and I think it's great to know how other people feel 'the flow'

Best vibes!

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~voidstar wrote (thread):

hello eaplmx! good to meet you. i overheard you talking about gemini over ham radio as i walked in, and i think that's super cool! and i hear you're bringing some spanish language content to the pub -- that's super cool too!

thank you for commenting. it's good to know someone else has felt this way. i actually do write code full time; most of it is maintenance and i have some techniques for keeping enough focus to stay productive, but that isn't 'flow' for me. when flow strikes, i end up doing high-level re-architecture work.

i'll be doing ludum dare this weekend so i've been giving daily offerings to the trickster gods of attention deficit. i hope it works.