Don’t Trade Your Life for Tech

Nick Bradbury: Don’t Trade Your Life for Tech:

Those of us in the technology sector see it all the time: co-workers who put in incredible hours coding away as though they have nothing else in their lives.  And quite often, they don’t.

I used to be one of those people.

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.

Amen.

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