Comments by "" (@diadetediotedio6918) on "Work Life Balance | Prime React" video.

  1. My sincere view, as someone who has been programming since 12, is that hard work pays off, but only if it's something you want to aim for. I'm not talking in terms of being something that you necessarily like, but of aiming for something bigger than yourself and working hard to achieve that goal, the other alternative is to work for something that you consider to be your calling. Every day I code 9-13 hours, sometimes more than that (it used to be more until my employers told me to stop for some reason), and when I'm not coding I'm reading about coding, I don't do that because I necessarily I'm looking for perfection (but of course, I'm always looking to be a better person than I was the day before), but because it's become something almost natural for me, because programming is something that interests me deeply, it's something that's part of of my life. I do not consider work as something external to me, or that there is some kind of mystical barrier between my personal and professional life, programming is part of me the same as craftsmanship is part of the craftsman, or carpentry part of the carpenter, this does not imply never doing anything different, or focusing only on that, but that doing things related to your craft is not a sacrifice but, many times, a pleasure, and I can definitely say that it is a pleasure for me. I can clearly feel the effects that all the years of work have had on me, for me it's clearly noticeable that after all that I'm better than before, not just as a programmer but in many ways as a human being, so I definitely think that, not only hard work, but mainly the feeling of being integrated with what one works on, is the essence of a complete life. I'm not saying that you should focus 15 hours a day on it, or that you need to, but that if you want to put more effort into what you do, improve yourself through hard work, that's something that comes with its downsides, but that also will most likely yield you the expected benefits. At such times, think about the nature of the craft, and that to each man men are "A medium-sized creature prone to great ambition."
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  2. If you think of game design as a profession in itself, which involves but is not necessarily complete with being a programmer, then choosing to focus on all these skills will make you a good game developer. Of course, dividing your attention will bring you less development in more specific activities, such as specifically being a draftsman, musician, scenario designer, screenwriter or programmer, but that doesn't mean that you will be bad at these tasks, you just won't be as good as someone who focuses more on developing those skills in particular. It's a dilemma similar to the notion that a general practitioner is less able to efficiently practice specialized areas of medicine, certainly general practitioners are extremely capable of treating all people, but when you have a specific problem and you have the choice, choosing someone who specializes in your problem is likely to be a wiser decision, which does not disqualify the general practitioner or his skills.
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  3. I believe your calling a study an "objective fact" has not helped the perception of PrimeTime. The exorbitant amount of lying studies out there is no joke, there has literally been a crisis in the social sciences caused by statistical lies, so skepticism is always welcome. That said, it seems reasonable that you'd be generally more productive if you had to exert yourself for less time, because just as muscles can't exert themselves for too long before becoming less efficient at taking action, the brain probably also can't focus for too long. before you get tired, however I think the bottom line is not the time you spend working, but the disposition you bring to the job, and the amount of effort you are willing to invest (in the same sense, muscles grow when they are exhausted of their strength, and the brain probably becomes more proficient the more you develop it, so we should see if in the long term these people which was working 4 day work weeks were actually better at their office than programmers working more time).
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  4. LMAO
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  5. ["You should not be forced or constantly lied to that 'you must work more'."] lol but the point is not about individual choices? If you are being forced by someone so there is no point on discussing "work/life balance" at all.
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  6.  @lifebarier  I don't see how this would be in any way analogous to what I said, job security is something that is to some extent under your control isn't it? If you stay at a company that is unsafe and has no prospect of improving your safety that is part of the process of choosing a better place, there is no point in telling someone who is actively choosing to stay in an unsafe place that they should looking for safety, like that insane youtuber who drank the water from Chernobyl, you could convince him but this is also about choices. [You also might have misinterpreted 'forced' by which I mean 'you have no other choice'.] - The point is basically the same in that sense, if you have no choice but to work constantly there is no possibility to talk about the professional/personal life balance, you would perhaps be dealing with a case of semi-slavery or with someone who is subjecting himself to it, it only makes sense to talk about balancing life and work if you already conceive beforehand that people have the possibility of working least willingly.
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