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Over 75% of the respondents of this week poll are on the positive side of the coding-is-fun fence...
I would like to know how many of them actually code for living...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I can't understand why anyone would want to sit in front of a monitor for 8+ hours a day if they didn't enjoy it!
If you don't enjoy what you are doing, then how can you remain motivated to do a good job every day for years to come? And for me, I don't like to do a job any less perfect than I can. Doing half the job because I'm bored with it? That just means I'm going to be back to fix the mess I made at some point in teh future, when I'm even less motivated to do it properly...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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From the flow of those half-educated 'developers' (QA) I conclude, that some do it for the money in the first place...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Most of 'em are sitting in front of a monitor for 8+ minutes a day: google your homework or job, fail to find the absolute solution, post on CP and SO. Walk away and play with Farcebook on your phone until we solve it for them. 
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The question wasn't "is it enjoyable?" - it was "is it fun?" which is why I answered in the negative.
I think to qualify as fun something has to be a thing that you'd do purely for the pleasure of doing it. As much as I sometimes enjoy writing code, I can't really imagine a situation where I'd ever choose to write code purely for the sake of doing it.
If it's my day off and the options are:
1) A walk in the park.
2) A trip to the cinema.
3) A "quick" pint.
4) A visit to the museum or art gallery.
5) Playing a game.
6) An afternoon in the sack.
7) Writing poetry or making music.
8) Watching sport.
9) Listening to music.
10) Cooking.
11) Watching TV.
12) Reading a book.
13) Writing some code that I don't need to write.
One of those is definitely coming in at unlucky 13 and is not going to happen - that would still be true on a much longer list of possibilities.
That doesn't mean that I'm unhappy with what I do for a living, it just means that I wouldn't ever confuse it with a hobby.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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The question can be seen 2 fold (because of the subquestion or whatever it is)
"Do you consider coding "fun"?" --> is coding in general
"Are we a happy bunch at work?" --> is coding at work, and that will be heavily influenced by the current work situation
That being said.
Not everyone gets to do what they originally wanted, but live forces them into different careers.
For me programming was a second choice, originally I was going to go into the military, but 1 accident and 2 hernia's later means I'd never pass the physical tests.
So programming it became.
I do enjoy coding but it wasn't a first choice.
And many other jobs are also problematic due to the hernia's so...
Tom
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OriginalGriff wrote: if they didn't enjoy it!
For some of us, it's because we are very good at it and couldn't get a job doing anything else that would pay the bills as well. My chances at playing in the NBA are rapidly declining so I stick with this. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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It's like any vocation: when it's challenging, it's fun -- notwithstanding the kind of challenging that's a result of other people's c0ck-ups.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I worked full-time as a programmer for over 30 years, and, as I answered in the survey, mostly enjoyed it. Due to my condition, I cannot work in the industry any longer, but I still mostly enjoy it, even though it does take me at least 20x as long to accomplish anything. I do find an added sense of accomplishment whenever I get anything working due to the extra effort I have had to put into it.
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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I do code the whole day at work, okay yeah maybe i go to to the toilet, CP or smoking but my main activity is (aside from planning, designing and stuff) coding. So i guess at least a good 70% of my yearly workload goes to that.
It is fun! Everybody has bad days but i confirm you, as soon as coding ain't fun anymore i'd switch the job because sitting in front of the pc coding the whole day i'd die if i wouldn't enjoy it 
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I've been coding professionally (== for money) for over 35 years.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Ok, with such a bait I can foresee the huge YES response...
Joke apart, at my job we are a huge open office. And there often some people on the other side of the floor having humongously laugh every 30 seconds.. (particularly today)
I find that very annoying! 
wonder whether this is a common reaction or not...
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Shout "ha ha ha yourself!" at them.
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Yes you are.
BTW, it is same for me as well. Many a times people will either be talking ever so loudly to each other or will be on a phone call and put it on speaker. It is horrible. This is the reason I have ear phones on for most of the day at office.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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As far as I've noticed , Usually people of lesser worth talk loud & laugh loud (@ work).
They do these to make their presence felt , which is otherwise NIL through other productive means.
I can really talk in lengths of what I've observed with these people.
And the other type, very much related to the above one, Usually walk into the office with all noses up. They tend to follow all rubbish body-language principals that teaches you how to walk confident, how to f*art confident & be all ass-ertive. Bullsh*t!
Super Lloyd wrote: I find that very annoying!
And yup it does. And it's not about getting old. It's about getting more sensible. When I was going through similar BS, I walked up to the director & requested him to do something about it. The message was gradually conveyed to the people who were doing it and ultimately the main character who created this nuisance habitually, was fired. (Lol he wasn't fired for laughing loud but for under performing continuously, you see the connection? )
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
modified 30-Nov-16 0:47am.
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Cheers!! ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
Feeling vindicated!
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You are exactly right. Makes me think of this fellow I work with. He uses all the buzzwords, has CIO magazine delivered to the office, and throws out F'bombs about once an hour. Yet you ask him to do something, it never gets done and I get stuck doing it.
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Vunic wrote: Usually people of lesser worth talk loud & laugh loud (@ work).
The HR and the marketing droids are usually the worst offenders.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I dread this word "HR". The most useless part of any technology company.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Vunic wrote: "HR". The most useless part of any technology company.
FTFY 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Lol thanks. I had actually worked on different types of companies. Even the ones with the assembly line productions, interacting with contract labors. I feel HR definitely had a role there, there'd been a lot of labor issues everyday, right from cafeteria to sanitation. None of the worthy employees dare spend time on these trivial issues. HR shines there.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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If you haven't throw on them some hard object, you are still young!!!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: If you haven't throw on them some hard object, you are still young!!!
And if you've tried to, and failed, you are ready for old fartdom
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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HAHAHA I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN BRO!
HAHAHAHA
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BRO 
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