Comments on: 8 Ways For A Programmer To Stay Sane

By: Howard A. Feller

Howard A. Feller — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:15:01 +0000

Maybe the following is a little bit ahead of your time…but I hope it
doesn’t turn you off…and no offense! I’m one of those old IBMers
that used to work on monster type mainframe systems with COBOL.

I, as well as my fellow programmers, went our way with these two sayings…

1. Don’t assume… you’ll make an ASS out of U and ME.
2. Prior Proper Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance, Pal. (Otherwise known as the Eight P’s of Doing Anything Right In
Life.)

By: John

John — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:44:39 +0000

I totally get this and can relate to it, it seems that in our career things are very quite one day but the next you might have 6 projects on and be like HELL what am I to do.

I found hiking was a good way of taking my mind off work but lately I have been struggling to pull myself away from my desk because simply there’s to much to be learning! :) IRN BRU and Crisps are my relief…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:05:13 +0000

I have to go for the be crazy in the first place. Well I guess that would just be redundant we are programmers we must be crazy. :-P

By: Rui

Rui — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:29:05 +0000

“Get married and have kids” eh eh eh need to get a wife first :)

By: Michael Easter

Michael Easter — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:11:11 +0000

Excellent suggestions…

+1 on exercise and a hobby that doesn’t involve a screen

re: exercise. It is hard to worry at 8 mph on a treadmill.

re: hobby. Get away from screens! e.g. Choose learning guitar over that wretched Guitar Hero game. Even modest songs on a _real_ instrument trumps a silly, transient game.

By: Hafiz

Hafiz — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:26:58 +0000

Get married and have kids :). Playing with, or even just be with, my kids after a day long coding will get me back to planet earth real quick.

Also, don’t ever quit reading/learning about the fiel. It takes us beyond our daily problem and make them not being so big anymore.

By: silent-observer

silent-observer — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:44:02 +0000

“Learn how to cook. Start playing chess. Do puzzles. Play soccer.”… ok, tonight i’ll look for some tutorials on internet :P

By: david

david — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:59:22 +0000

@dan: Have you never been to Serbia and Montenegro? Playing cheese is their national sport. Kidding aside, meant to say chess. I wrote this after a rough night of work — that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!

By: dan

dan — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:55:34 +0000

how does one play cheese?

By: david

david — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:42:47 +0000

Thank you for the heads up Michael. WordPress butchered that post on me. All is well now.