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One of the biggest lies that I believed for too long was "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life". In reality, doing what you love for work turns what you love into work.

A labor of love is something you can do at your own pace, on your own schedule, and there's nothing wrong with deciding not to do it when you don't feel like it. Doing it for work means that you have to do it no matter what.

So I do what I love on my own time, and do work on work time. That it looks like I'm doing the same thing (programming) in both cases is illusory.



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