Debunking the myth that ❝Programmers have no hobbies besides coding❞

I do and I need it to prevent burnout.

❝Just curious, do you do anything besides coding?❞

Upon hearing my colleague’s question, I couldn’t help but roll my eyes 😒 I’m currently in my 3ʳᵈ job and at each workplace, at least 2 other co-workers from non-technical divisions would without a doubt ask the exact same question. In short, the answer is yes and in fact, I can testify that it helps me significantly in avoiding the infamous ❛Developer Burnout Syndrome❜.

Wire-Crafting, 1 of my Favourite Past-Times ❤

Photo by Author | A wire work spelling the letters “geek-cc” which I made out of boredom 🙃

During my University days, my faculty was publicly named as the ❝School of Information Systems❞, with the acronym SIS. Students from other faculties such as ❝School of Business❞ & ❝School of Economics❞ had often joked that it should be renamed to the ❝School of Insufficient Sleep❞ (SIS) instead due to the frequency which its students had to stay overnight in school to meet project deadlines. As a result this inevitably led to the impression that students who graduated from technical faculties do nothing but code, debug, sleep and eat. Personally and truth to be told, I do enjoy programming even in my free time. However, like many other homo-sapiens do; I need to have a few activities in my…