Life Patterns
Nick Bradbury an tech entrepreneur writes something that in some very vague way I can relate to just now. Hopefully circumstances and events in life will help me move away from what I know is not correct and sustainable but find it very difficult to veer out of.
When I was working on HomeSite over a decade ago, I rarely left my desk. If I wasn’t coding, I was answering email or doing some other work-related task. I hardly slept, ate far too much junk food, and traded my health for what I thought was a successful career as a software developer.
If that sounds familiar to you, do yourself a favor and stop living this way. It’s not worth it. Eventually you’ll look back and wish you would’ve spent more time getting out and meeting people (non-geeky people, that is), and you’ll look down at your pizza-filled belly and wonder how you let yourself get so unhealthy.
A friend of mine plays for the NFL, and despite the obvious differences in our chosen careers, we’ve also noticed some similarities. When they’re in their 20’s, football players often have their youth eaten up by their jobs, and they reach their mid-30’s with little to show for their lives outside of career-related highs and lows. By the time they hit 40, their sagging health reflects the stress and damage they did to themselves when they were younger. Sounds an awful lot like the world of software development, doesn’t it?
Any reflections ?
