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I'm a Software Engineer and a teacher.
There's no feeling quite like the one you get when you watch someone's eyes light up learning something they didn't know.
I also learned to code while still keeping my previous 9-5 job, so a year of staying up to 2 am and coding through the weekends.
1 tip that helped me was to set aside one day a week to take a break from coding. For me it was Saturday, I would stay away from the computer and reserved the day for family/personal time.
I also tried to get to bed early at least one night a week (usually Tue-Wed). That broke the pattern of all-nighters and let me "catch my breath."
Can't stress enough your point about surrounding yourself with a community of others who code. I couldn't really get out to meetups as much as I would have liked, but I did find a few supportive online communities, such as dev.to, CodeNewbie on Twitter, and the Flatiron School's Slack channel (the bootcamp I took).
Speaking of taking a break from coding, I actually did that this weekend. Its definitely necessary to take some time off from code altogether every so often
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This is great!
I also learned to code while still keeping my previous 9-5 job, so a year of staying up to 2 am and coding through the weekends.
1 tip that helped me was to set aside one day a week to take a break from coding. For me it was Saturday, I would stay away from the computer and reserved the day for family/personal time.
I also tried to get to bed early at least one night a week (usually Tue-Wed). That broke the pattern of all-nighters and let me "catch my breath."
Can't stress enough your point about surrounding yourself with a community of others who code. I couldn't really get out to meetups as much as I would have liked, but I did find a few supportive online communities, such as dev.to, CodeNewbie on Twitter, and the Flatiron School's Slack channel (the bootcamp I took).
Speaking of taking a break from coding, I actually did that this weekend. Its definitely necessary to take some time off from code altogether every so often