I’ve heard this before, but haven’t found it the case personally. I started work in manual jobs and messing around with computers was my evening hobby. Many years later, I now do IT as a job (partly from gaining skills from that hobby) but also have continued it as my primary thing to do when I’m not working. I was worried when I changed into this career that my hobby would become too much like work to be enjoyable, but I’ve not found that.

Is this the same for other people, or am I unusual in doing something in my off hours that’s so close to my career? I’m genuinely curious to know if others have found the same or whether they found another hobby.

  • Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish
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    14 days ago

    DevOps here. I still really like programming and systems administration, but I’m so burnt out I can’t do anything anymore after 8h+ of work. It has gotten to the point that I hate computers so much, I favor going out into nature over fixing my broken Linux install of my desktop for several months now. I’d love to write software again but my brain can’t do it.

    • Borger@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      14 days ago

      This is 100% me as a SWE. I loved working on my own projects as a teen. Now I’m weary and my love for it has been displaced by rage and frustration lol. Last thing I’d think of doing after work.

    • voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      14 days ago

      I credit SRE with starting my hiking hobby. Never liked being in nature until I was forced to sit in front of a computer screen for 40-60 hours a week and some weekends.

      Now I’ve been to a dozen national parks, about as much state parks and one of the few joys I get is planning the next outing.

    • Dingaling@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Thanks for your experience. I’ve certainly felt like that at times, and some nights definitely don’t want to do it - so then I turn to other hobbies that aren’t related, but I keep coming back to it.

  • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    12 days ago

    My husband is a chef.

    My husband cooked two meals for me in our first year dating(I will never forget him making steak for me in his boxers at midnight, never, absolutely amazing). He’s not cooked for me since. I am okay with this arrangement. Sometimes, he cant even be in the kitchen when Im doing prep lol I totally get it.

    I do feel some sorrow, as I see it in him too, his loss of love for cooking.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12 days ago

      Can he not be in the kitchen due to work trauma or because you arent doing it like in the kitchen and he feels like it’s a wrong workflow?

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          11 days ago

          Understandable.

          I just imagine the possible reasons for why
          Does your prep annoy him so much because it could be done in X ways faster and with less work but he doesnt want to steal your joy in food prep
          or
          You remind him in how you work of his trainees and essentially stays quiet to keep the peace at home

          Either way, the internet stranger wishes you a good week :)

          • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            8 days ago

            Just so you know, this just came up in converstation with my husband, (losing hobbies because of work). So I read him out what you said, and what I said. He said, “you’re better than 80% of the people I work with, that’s just some online troll, Im serious you’re better than most people I work with, don’t listen to people like that”.

            His loss of love for cooking has nothing to with me. It’s three days later bruh and like, don’t assume man. Diss my skill, a skill I pride myself in. humphhhh.