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That does not really make any sense: anything done professionally is not about relaxing.
Relaxing is when you get out of any professional duty.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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I dunno - I find software design strangely relaxing and therapeutic.
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I like development and software design a lot, since about thirty years now. I find that quite exciting, and rewarding also when I manage to achieve my goals, especially when it takes me quite some time and efforts.
But relaxing comes after all that. When I shut off my computer and go out and see my friends; or finally watch this lovely serie I downloaded weeks ago; or have a glass of dry Cardhu with a good book.
Therapeutic? I've quit the idea to be able to be saved a long time ago 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I find software design strangely relaxing and therapeutic.
Same here.
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If you're good at something, doing it shouldn't be a strain.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A developer's life is more relaxing.
You only have to write three lines of code a day, and tell everyone it's hard*.
* Don't tell me you haven't worked with that guy. He gets around more than herpes.
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Go for tester. Of mattresses. Very relaxed 
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As a freelancer I must assume both roles, and with my penchant for detail, this makes the whole testing and development spiel anything but relaxing.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Tester's life.
Developers have to idiot-proof the systems they develop.
Testers have to be just their normal selves - idiots! 
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You may have intended your post to be a joke, however, it is also very true and accurate.
If a tester behaves like an idiot, they will find bugs that the other testers have completely missed.
It is the same reason that users find bugs, untrained and stupid, they do the unexpected, and find the weird and wonderful and sometimes unhandled exceptions.
I appreciate a bit of stupidity and idiocy when the outcome is positive and doesn't make me look stupid.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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If you are told to watch your drinking, should you find a bar with a mirror?
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I don't drink in bars. My wife allows me to drink at home. 
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You mean she doesn't let you out?
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I am allowed out only to buy booze! 
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You're lucky.. my missus orders it online 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Cornelius Henning wrote: My wife allows me to drink stuff she's watered down at home
The truth, the whole truth...
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No! If she waters down my stuff, I will drink hers.
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OK.
And you think she doesn't know that?
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If you don't have a mirror just look into the glass, then drink with eyes open to be safe.
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yes. and if you are asked to watch from a far, then you need standard issue binoculars, as well. Just saying. 
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No, just find a person named Yore and watch them drink.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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jeron1 wrote: No, just find a person named Yore and watch them drink.
"Alas, poor Yore(ick), I knew him well..."
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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Don't listen to the man, drink in all places.
Be a rebel without a where clause.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I think I might join you, just to see what it triggers.
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