work-life

Work Life Balance

I'm sure we've all been in situations where a key date is approaching (launch, beta, etc.) and we need to put in long hours. However, even day-to-day there is more work to be done than time to do it. I'm curious how people manage their work life balance? When I interned, and I was working towards getting a full time offer, I didn't rea...

How do you maintain your mental health in your programming job?

I burned out a few years back, really bad. Like my nervous system partially shut down for a while because I pushed myself too hard. Thankfully I had good benefits and came back (after I stubbornly took my time and over a year off). Working as a programmer didn't help, it turned out my source of the problem wasn't work, work just exace...