What do you, engineers, do outside of work.

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Jun 23, 2017 61 Comments

Inspired by someone's earlier post about the boring Seattle engineering men dating scene, was wondering what kind of gigs engineers do outside of work?

Asking this because I recently came to the same realization about myself - that by working at tech I almost forgot about how brave and inspired I used to be while in high school / college, and how the daily engineering routine almost dumbed me down into a lifeless coding monkey (or gorilla). This thought almost made me sick, and I started to actively come back to the activities that used to define me.

I'll start with myself:
Aspiring drummer, used to do digital painting and animation, film making.

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  • Apple
    Snut Ella

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    Snut Ella
    Good gawd. Are these really your lives? Is it won't the extra few K you get from tech to feel so uninspired? I don't love my job. It I love my life. If my job were the only thing in my life I'd quit and ride my bike across country. Or something.
    Jun 23, 2017 3
    • Apple
      Snut Ella

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      Snut Ella
      Peep. I understand and laud your goal. But reading the replies made me really question whether the job is worth it for some of the posters. The money is nice but unless you have other things in your life it's not worth it.
      Jun 24, 2017
    • PayPal
      asdfew

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      asdfew
      @Snut Ella: if you spend 8 hrs at work and don't like it, then you are wasting 1/3rd of your life which means you are stupid!
      Jun 25, 2017
  • Google
    XavierC

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    XavierC
    I wish I started Leetcode sooner fml
    Jun 23, 2017 9
    • Google
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      OP
      I was very hardcore, depends on how much you want to leave your company :) It was all in a span of about 4-6 months. Also there are more problems in leetcode now than 2 years ago. My main motivation was that before I was total trash at interview questions, I failed all my internship interviees, and failed most of the job interviews.
      Jun 25, 2017
    • Cisco / Eng
      WalterW

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      WalterW
      hmm, I am at 350+ problems. Started last February. Problem is that I keep on forgetting the solutions I did earlier. Also failed all interviews prior to that.
      Jun 25, 2017
  • I teach computer science to high schoolers.
    Read philosophy in spare time.
    Learn about ancient history( currently learning about the downfall of the Roman republic) and go visit some of those places.
    Oh and I have zero social life. My best friends are mostly in the Midwest and the east coast. :/
    Jun 23, 2017 0
  • Honestly I haven't done much. Specially arriving home so late and tired. Feeling specially sad this week as it is pride and I barely have energy to go out
    Jun 23, 2017 8
  • eBay / Eng
    bobbys

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    Amazon
    bobbys
    Off road biking , traveling, photography, cinematography, trying to be squash pro player , gym . Trying to quit software engineer life and find meaningful options to live ( finding ways to get away from life trap and society driven false beliefs giving importance to money and materialistic world )
    Jun 23, 2017 2