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		<title>On programming for fun.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if it is the nature of the beast that when someone does something for a living day in and day out, it stops being fun. I&#8217;m starting to worry that may be the case with me.

Why am I bringing this up? One reason is due to watching my friend Rab having fun with <a href="http://www.greglincoln.com/2007/02/17/on-programming-for-fun/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wonder if it is the nature of the beast that when someone does something for a living day in and day out, it stops being fun. I&#8217;m starting to worry that may be the case with me.</p>

<p>Why am I bringing this up? One reason is due to watching my friend Rab <a href="http://robertbeverly.com/2007/02/17/hobby-programming/">having fun with Python</a>. He&#8217;s having fun. He&#8217;s doing it for fun, and thus he&#8217;s having fun. Doesn&#8217;t that sound like fun? It does to me. Yet he&#8217;s doing the same thing I do as a job, and I don&#8217;t have fun. Maybe it is because he&#8217;s writing a game?</p>

<p>Reading his adventures, and talking with him about python programming is fun. It makes me want to start programming for fun too. As it doesn&#8217;t make sense to me for the idea of programming to be fun but the programming itself not to be, I suppose I&#8217;m just looking at the the wrong way. Maybe all I need to do is adjust my point of view, and I&#8217;ll start having fun again. I say again because I did enjoy programming once. I know it is possible for me to do so.</p>

<p>Thus starts the experiment. I&#8217;m not sure yet how I&#8217;m going to approach this. Perhaps the best method is to just adjust my thinking &#8212; find the &#8220;game&#8221; in whatever I&#8217;m doing, cling to it, and use that shape my overall view.</p>
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