The article reflects on the tension between personal identity and professional life through the author's recollections of his father's rigid views on work-life separation. The author questions the validity of these compartments, instead emphasizing the importance of integrating personal passion into professional pursuits. He acknowledges that while maintaining boundaries is important, the deep connection he feels towards programming and coding brings fulfillment that traditional advice may overlook. Through introspection, the piece highlights the complexities of navigating work and personal identity in a modern context.
You shouldn’t do your personal life at work or work too much overtime when your family needs you. But you don’t need the watertight compartments metaphor to understand that.
Even if you love your job, it can't love you back. Yet what I'm hooked on isn't one job, but the power of code and language.
The older I get, the more I question my dad's advice about keeping work and home life in separate 'watertight compartments.'
His presence was like an AI simulating a father, throwing around words that sounded like a thing to say from a dad, but not helpful.
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