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Why not take the security job, and spend the night programming.
Get paid twice over.
Then with the extra cash take a few weeks off each year to read etc.
-Richard
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giuchici wrote: If there's any of you that has a recipe that allows doing those and keep my
current occupation please share.
C9H13N
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... and then get the security job. Such a promissing combination. 
giuchici
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Talk the bean-counters into down-grading your computers.
At the same time, insist on the latest software technology.
Then you will have plenty of time to read classic literature: between key-presses in some cases.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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OriginalGriff wrote: Talk the bean-counters into down-grading your computers.
At the same time, insist on the latest software technology.
Then you will have plenty of time to read classic literature: between key-presses in some cases.
Have you worked at the same places as I have? The exception is that the bean counters buy "state of the art" computers, or at least they where that two years before the companies I've wirked for bought them. So they've made away with the "down-grading" part... 
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Personally, I wish I could win the lottery and just program for fun. However,if wishes were horses, beggers would be cowboys? ride.
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This is why programming is my hobby. If I did it for a living I'd probably hate it. 
If Barney Frank eats a fruitcake, is it cannibalism?
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It is your destiny pal, you are stuck in an endless loop ...
just cheer up and take a vacation
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If you are anything like me, you spend about 7 out of 8 hours a day on Code Project. Instead, spend that reading.
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Couldn't you do that on weekends or evenings? (Not me - I write code in my spare time.  )
/ravi
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Is this a good time to point out that the rest of your life is going to be ruled by a 1cm2 piece of silicon?
Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[ ^]
"Program as if the technical support department is full of serial killers and they know your home address" - Ray Cassick Jr., RIP
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Trollslayer wrote: your life is going to be ruled by a 1cm2 piece of silicon?
Oh come on, I'm sure there's more silicon than that in them!!
Oh wait, you mean computers...
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Usually it's never a good time to get that news.
However, some of the answers I got made me smile so I'm better now.
giuchici
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1. Don't waste time at work. And yes. I AM aware of the irony of posting this at 8 in the morning from my work PC, first thing. But this is my wake-up, coffee-and-sandwich period.
2. Minimise commute, or combine commute with exercise by cycling. Or if you can get a train, so that. I read at least a book a week purrely by reading on my commute, which is a 40-minute train ride.
3. Get a routine going on (see 2)
4. Get up early. Leave work early. see 3.
5. Don't get married. (too late for some)
6. Don't have kids. (see 5)
7. Don't accept jobs that require you to stay late as a matter of course. That is and always has been social abuse.
8. Get Organised.
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The trouble is that on a night-watchman's salary you'd soon run out of books, and wouldn't be able to afford more.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Why security guard? Why not data center operator or some such thing ? After you are done with the nightly routine maintenance tasks you are pretty much free.
Und wenn du lange in einen abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.
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Data center operator is valid too. Probably better.
giuchici
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I'll admit there have been days where I want to give up all technology, get a job as a janitor/handyman for some little hole in the wall mom and pop owned convenience store located on the Mediterranean coast, where I can rent the one-room flat just above the store. And the only electronics around me is small FM radio.
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There were tons of social sites before facebook, but why facebook can be so successful?
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LOL! 
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Facebook started as a social networking site for college students. It was a collaborative tool. That focus allowed it to solidify and grow its core audience. They then expanded and evolved naturally. These are just my opinions.
At that point the college students were used to using their real names and not handles. They brought in their families and friends not in college and that exploded. I believe the use of your real name alone has helped Facebook quite a bit. Instead of just being another semi-anonymous online community it became an extension of your life.
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Exclusivity. And Justin Timberlake.
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