> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On
Behalf
> Of Vitaliy
> Sent: 25 March 2008 20:12
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [OT] Does It Suck To Be An Engineering Student?
> 
> Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:
> > But doing your "fun" things for a living can turn them into not so
fun
> > things IME!
> 
> YMMV, but I get pleasure from getting a circuit or a program to do
what I
> designed it to do, regardless of whether I do it for work or fun. It's
the
> "joy of making things" and the "joy of making things useful to other
> people"
> that Brooks talked about in the MMM.
> 
> I'd be interested to know which fun things turned into not so fun
things
> for
> you, and why you think it happened.
> 
> Vitaliy

I wrote that comment incorrectly; what I actually meant was that if you
enjoy doing something as a hobby, then that hobby will no longer be as
special or interesting if you also do it as a career.

I still enjoy designing hardware and programming and debugging embedded
projects, but as I do that all day I feel less inclined to spend my
spare time doing it as well.  It's effectively just an extension of my
working day, even if the end result is for me rather than my employer.

Regards

Mike

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