From the course: Career Clinic: Developer Insights
Work/life balance
From the course: Career Clinic: Developer Insights
Work/life balance
(upbeat music) - Finding a work life balance is a conversation, some of it depends on the organization that you're working with, or group, or the work that you just take on for yourself, some of it is sending boundaries, like having an explicit differentiation between your workplace or having time for yourself. It's not a case of procrastination, it's a case of priorities. I now have a young family, and they are incredibly important to me, and I want to make sure that I am there in their lives, and so I make a extreme point of leaving work at work. - Well you know how's it with coders. Given a problem, we sit in front of a computer, try to solve it, and we always forget that we have a life, but that's usually not the case. We have to remember that we are here for a reason and we have to give ample amount of time for our dear ones, our family, and our hobbies. You can always learn something from your hobby and put it back to work, and you can always learn something from work, and put it back to your hobby. - So back then, when I started my professional career, I was horrible at work life balance. I just brought work home, and worked until really late hours, and I saw that this is not going to lead anywhere, but still I kept doing it. It's a very strange thing that I think a lot of other engineers, writers, artists find, is that if you take a deep breath and get away from whatever the problem is you're trying to solve, go take a walk, go away for a weekend, just go walk the dog, play with the kids, the problem that you had suddenly solves itself, and it's the weirdest thing, but suddenly you'll just go, oh, yeah that's the problem. And it's because you got your brain from focusing on it, and suddenly, the solution is apparent. (upbeat music)
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Kirsten Hunter4m 55s
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Mary Ellen Bowman3m 40s
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Ray Villalobos4m 51s
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Rae Hoyt4m 25s
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Steven Lipton4m 26s
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Diversity in tech5m 23s
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Mohammad Azam4m 49s
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Chiu-Ki Chan4m 56s
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Maximiliano Firtman3m 27s
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Carrie Dils2m 40s
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Ted Neward5m 13s
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Shonna Smith3m 1s
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Janan Siam4m 3s
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Emmanuel Henri3m 28s
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Albert Lo3m 9s
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Christina Truong3m 1s
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Sasha Vodnik3m 47s
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Jen Kramer4m 25s
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Freelancing5m 14s
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Upcoming in tech3m 39s
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David Okun3m 57s
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Learning and obtaining new skills3m 43s
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Perseverance3m 59s
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Clarissa Peterson4m 27s
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Starting a business3m 27s
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Mind of a developer4m 7s
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Derek Peruo5m 26s
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Clean code practice5m
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Mentorship3m 33s
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Bear Cahill3m 4s
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Networking5m 15s
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Ketkee Aryamane3m 28s
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Conferences4m 19s
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Meetups4m 19s
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Leigh Lawhon2m 48s
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Star Wars or Star Trek1m 43s
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Unexpected opportunities4m 58s
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Acting on your ideas3m 30s
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Matt Boyd2m 31s
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Career changes3m 53s
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Business tips4m 57s
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Bonnie Brennan2m 8s
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Collaboration and open source5m 44s
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Communication skills3m 49s
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Upcoming in tech3m 46s
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Diversity in tech5m 15s
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Mind of a developer3m 48s
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Working across generations5m 35s
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Mentorship5m 33s
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Conferences4m 59s
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Collaboration on projects4m 26s
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Networking3m 30s
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Introversion5m 22s
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Raising concerns4m 19s
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Dealing with conflict5m 20s
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Work-life balance5m 25s
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Impostor syndrome5m 24s
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Learning and obtaining new skills1m 42s
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New tools learned4m 16s
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Favorite gadgets/tech3m 46s
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Communication skills5m 3s
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Diversity3m 23s
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Mentorship4m 29s
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Motivate kids/development3m 31s
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Work/life balance2m 14s
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Perseverance4m 49s
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Introversion3m 40s
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Imposter syndrome3m 39s
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Self-promotion3m 36s
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Favorite projects4m 59s
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