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Discussion on: What harmful habits do developers pick up over time?

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Chad Smith

In my opinion a very harmful one that developers deal with is not separating out home and work. Don't take your work home, and in my opinion that even includes researching and learning for your job.

It's one thing to learn/do more research because you're interested in it and you enjoy it. It's another thing to constantly do work/research for your job outside of work at home. I really believe jobs need to pay and budget that time into your everyday job function. I see this especially with new developers. They feel so much pressure to learn and make their employers happy that they end up burning themselves out by doing all kinds of things outside of normal work hours. That's a big thing I stress when mentoring new developers. Separate out the work and home. Don't feel pressure to catch-up on the weekends.