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Most people, most of the time, are not working on projects so fun and engaging that they enter crunch of their own accord.

If you are, go for it. But the rest of the time you have to assume your programming will be dealing with "boring problems" that don't allow for an exciting solution - a balanced lifestyle helps make those situations acceptable.

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Were I to be in that situation, I would be using my spare time to engage in programming something fun and rewarding for myself - not spending my time further away from programming, loathing and dreading the moment I return to a keyboard. That is what I don't get... surely spending time doing things to avoid solving "boring problems" would further compound the issue of wanting to avoid programming?

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