Do programmers have free time?

Question

Time Management

Most of the acquaintances in junior positions say that they have no free time at all, all the time they need to finish their studies or practice. Is this really true and is it relevant for the middle, for example? If so, then I just can’t imagine how some people manage to change spheres as well.

Answer 1

You are given a task - you think it over, read literature, check and test something, design, and then write the code, and then test and devop it again. Along the way, other interesting topics that you also study are touched upon. Someone considers this working time, someone free (except for writing code).
Standard practice for a junior: here are a couple of tasks that you need to do yesterday, very important ones. And June is simply not able to say (correctly formulate and convey to the boss): "My working day ends in 2 hours, tomorrow is the weekend, so I will solve the problem in a week, the commission will wait with the verification." This happens because juniors usually feel inexperienced, inferior, that they do not know the internal structure and processes of the company, that they owe someone. Hence there are overwork, burnout and memorization of this "scheme", which, after promotion with a sense of revenge, they implement on new juns.

Answer 2

Haha, there are, of course, they just always pretend to be sufferers. In any profession, you can limit working hours, and you need to do this, otherwise you will quickly burn out. Though a copywriter, even a programmer, but anyone)