weekends

We had family picnics on the weekends because back then hardly anyone worked on the weekends.

My grandfather is a 89-year-old lawyer and you can find him every morning on his office, including weekends.

Is there a shortage of people that love writing software enough to spend most nights and weekends doing it?

My Via driver the other night was telling me about how he drives for Uber on weekends.

Also, I would immediately become a 9-5 employee and enjoy my weekends like my now equally paid peers.

Unreasonable work expectations for product features and expectations that a person would be available anytime/any day weekends including to do work and support.

An upper middle class, eat out every night, Tahoe weekends lifestyle is not going to happen on $75/k in SF, especially if you want savings.

I eat out, drink, do stuff on weekends and pay my school loans and bills.

I think my next few weekends will be taken up with getting a real world implementation working and getting some examples working.

I'm interested but not definitely, located in Enschede but can travel in the weekends.

A $500 training budget will get you nowhere and you'll find yourself using long weekends (like I'm doing right now) learning new skills.

> Is there a shortage of people that love writing software enough to spend most nights and weekends doing it?

Secondly, Ensorceled specifically said (s)he would start "enjoying the weekends", which implies the long hours were, unlike for you, not being particularly enjoyable.

After 4 years in business, they continued to interview people for positions at a "startup", requiring candidates to agree to stay late or work on weekends to make the business succeed.

They did have very flexible work schedules (including being completely able to work on weekends), though, which probably made it a lot easier than the (traditional) "You will work from 9am-5pm on Monday through Friday" most corporations (still) expect.

And what's truly strange is how he seems to think that those types of people don't "eat and breathe code", when the prevailing sentiment on HN is that these 'rockstars' have poor work-life balance and don't do anything except code on evenings/weekends.