Competing with a “Stanford grad just dying to work all nighters on Red Bull” ↦
Itamar Turner-Trauring:
How do you get a programming job with work/life balance when it seems like everyone else is willing to work long hours? By realizing that long hours are the opposite of productive, and that employment is a negotiated relationship.
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Itamar Turner-Trauring
Helping Python software teams ship features faster.
2019-01-21T15:47:29Z ago
How do you set boundaries to ensure work/life balance? Would love to hear people’s stories.
Jerod Santo
Bennington, Nebraska
Jerod co-hosts The Changelog, crashes JS Party & takes out the trash (his old code) once in awhile.
2019-01-21T15:53:04Z ago
A difficult task, for sure! This is exasperated by work-from-home scenarios, which I’ve been doing for ~10 years now.
It helps to have physically/geographically separated “work” and “life” spaces. When I first started out, it was work in the basement and life upstairs. That was okay for awhile, but once we started having kids it became untenable.
Nowadays I’m fortunate enough to have an office above the garage (even with a separate entrance). I can leave my laptop in the office, shut the door behind me, and (for the most part) set it all aside until the next day I’m working.