How to know if being a developer is the right career path for for you?

If you lose sleep over a missing semicolon, that's your fault because modern tools tell you where the fuck an error is

Fucking stereotypes

@devTea swear to god

My favorite way to spend a Saturday/Sunday is kicked back watching sports. Guess I'm not an actual developer then :(

You lose sleep over potentially infringing software patent(s) and praying to Allah that your company’s lawyer(s) don’t decide to throw you under the bus.

How to not do a dev career.

This sounds like a list based on someone who's obtained their knowledge from Hollywood.

My idea of a fun Sunday is spending time with my wife and daughter. I've never lost sleep over a missing semi-colon. I enjoy problem solving to a point, but I'm much more likely to be thinking about what I'm going to have for breakfast when taking a shower. I like building things, but the vast majority of real world devwork is maintenance... and none of that should come as a surprise.

@JustThat not too many times because I use a real OS as my main lmao 😏😏

Huh... guess I'm a stereotype now... To my defence though... It's not that I enjoy loosing my sleep over a fucking little shit of a simple bug, I just can't turn the dev off in my head.

Punctuation bugs not relevant, but something as simple as messing up a simple equation or getting the greater or lesser than symbols turned around? Fuck... Logic bugs are the worst.

The Dev is my dope. I'm not an alcoholic, a compulsive gambler or even a smoker, but when my mind latches on to something I'm gone 'till I'm done, or I get a good "shaking". Books, code, computer arcitecture... my poison has many faces, but I'm getting better at breaking out. Mostly due to fatigue these days, but hey, I get out of it at least...

@Hakash I understand the part about not turning it off.

I'm kind of a perfectionist, so I want to solve the task at hand in one sitting or it drives me crazy

@Stuxnet The paradox is that I also suffer a bit from the "Ooh, shiny" syndrome when I'm trying to pull my shit together an finish that fuckng personal project I'm alone on. So much like procratinators here on dR, I can go off the rails, down a rabbit hole and emerge a good while later, usually when it's bedtime...

Especially in the shower, steamy glass doors are best whiteboards

You like people shoving their opinions about languages, frameworks, methodologies and protocols down your neck 😀😀