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Smoothing out the peaks and valleys (self.experienced_devs)

submitted 1 year ago by deadbeef to c/experienced_devs

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Hiya

If you're at all like me, there's the manic periods of development, where things get done... and there are the lulls. What do you like to do in those lulls? Do you have a bin of fun work shit to do? Do you watch videos? Touch grass? Socialize?

Just curious

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[–] kraegar 3 points 1 year ago

I normally try and do "fun" work. This largely depends on how autonomous your job is. I was a PhD student doing research for a company and I received very little oversight for 3 years.

The supervision I did receive was great though. They understood needing to take a break and slow down. At those point I would generally read papers, watch PyData talks (highly recommend them, like inspirational ted talks for data people), or contribute to open source to learn about new tools or design paradigms.