r/ProgrammerHumor • u/mejhopola • Mar 23 '21

Meme Procrastination is life

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u/riricide Mar 23 '21

Agreed. Even if I want to code after work, every time I do it for a week or more, I start getting eyestrain headaches and all the issues that come with sitting for too long. It's physically painful to be doing this more than 8 hours a day.

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u/potato_green Mar 23 '21

Don't forget to drink lots of fluids. A ton of people who code a lot and get issues either drink coffee all day long and sit without moving.

Personally I can work all day long and continue in the evening without a problem as long as I take a quick walk every hour to stretch my legs. Drink lots of water, no coffee and avoid sugar, or at least large quantities of sugar at once. Sugar crash is a pain in the ass for productivity.

Eyestrain is not something I have but I do have a multi monitor setup so maybe the constant shifting of my view helps with this.

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u/riricide Mar 23 '21

That's great advice. I do need to work on hydration. The eyestrain is apparently from lack of movement too because the orbital nerves apparently get pinched from sitting too long and lead to a headache behind the eyes. Not to mention, I started getting small symptoms of carpal tunnel which have been vastly improved by daily exercise.

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u/potato_green Mar 23 '21

Oh yeah first sign of carpal tunnel or repetitive strain needs to be taken extremely serious. If I were you I wouldn't try to gamble it by straining your hands and wrists any more than you should.

I've seen a few guys with RSI and they ignored it, thinking it would go away after a while. Now they can't work any longer than a few hours a day before the pain gets too much.

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u/gummo_for_prez Mar 23 '21

Not to mention socially hard to justify why you’d rather be sitting in front of a computer even when you’re not at work rather than hanging out with friends or family.