I would be thoroughly miffed if all there was to my life was my work. I love this industry and what I do - but I would have some severe regrets if I died and that was my only major accomplishment.
Life is far too grand, far too complex, to be spent just coding.
> Life is far too grand, far too complex, to be spent just coding.
Much wisdom here.
The workaholic personality type can be prone to overworking in order to compensate for other areas of life that aren't quite going their way. I've been that person, but I don't plan on returning to it. In these cases, its much more fruitful to fix the problem than it is to mask it. It just happens that working too much is socially-approved escapism.
Life is far too grand, far too complex, to be spent just coding.