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I'll add to the chorus of "do something you actually like" but with a caveat: no one works 8 hour straight.

Sure, you're there for 8 hours, but no one just sits and codes and configures and thinks. You get up. You socialize. You drink coffee. You surf the web. That stuff is important, too -- you're a human, not a robot, and you can't be effective if all you do is work. (Remember The Shining?)



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