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   受不了包 (shibao@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 06:47:23 JST 受不了包

   are there really any good conclusions to the question of "work and life" that aren't either choosing to make your primary objective in life tied to your work somehow or just coming to terms with the fact that work will always just be a vehicle for your life and therefore somewhat antagonistic to whatever you want to do
   
   or solutions that don't involve throwing away all your attachments and becoming a monk

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     amy (amy@kokoro.garden)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 09:27:46 JST amy

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     @shibao Also IME this doesn't work unless you have the "work hard play hard" mentality, if your personal life is that you just want to chill and socialize with friends work will never be anything but antagonistic to that. If work is instead one thing skill many that you want to hone, it's much easier to allow it to be something that you primarily focus on for a while, and then allow it to ebb into the background and hone your other skills later.

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     amy (amy@kokoro.garden)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 09:27:47 JST amy

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     @shibao I have seen other people effectively flow back and forth between these two extremes and attain a really high degree of mastery in both personal and professional interests. This works better if your profession accommodates it at different phases of your career. An example I'm thinking of is physicians I know who have something on the backburner during residency and then start working on it in depth when they become an attending. I don't know if software has a similar exit..

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     受不了包 (shibao@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 09:28:25 JST 受不了包

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     @amy@kokoro.garden yeah maybe im going too hard in just webdev and feeling this at this point, thank you, these replies are really helpful!

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     GNK power droid (jericho@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 09:31:42 JST GNK power droid

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     @shibao@misskey.bubbletea.dev maybe try to change how "work" works by changing how the world works around that so nobody has to give up life for work and have more time for things they care about

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     tiskaan2@misskey.bubbletea.dev's status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 09:31:46 JST tiskaan2

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     @shibao isnt that the nameless dao sis.

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