Do You Have A Social Life Outside Adsense?

Are you a closet geek?

[OptiRex]

New thread since Website wrote:

Good optirex! prove me wrong. While i feel that you and a handfull of others are, i believe that the reality is that the majority of those focused on computer related activities as thier career (not just those contributing to this site) do not utilize that type of human contact. Usually those who do find reason to involve themselves come to the conclusion they are lacking signifigant human interaction, yet that alone isnt enough motivation most of the time. Four incentives are most often used to complete the "I need leave my computer" cycle and sadly enough these are the want of "Power", "Money", "Sex", or "Physical/Mental Numbness".

Adsensers!

How do you relax?

Do you relax?

Do you spend all your hours plotting your next improvements alone or do you go to the pub/cafe and bounce your ideas around with others?

Maybe myself and friends, who are all developers/programmers, are unusual in that we meet several nights a week and chat about various ideas we've had reading through the various forum threads etc.

We're a mixed group of males and females ranging from early twenties to mid fifties in the UK where evening/early morning socialising is a well known local leisure activity:-)))

[IanTurner]

I play darts to relax - I find if I even mention what I do everyone glazes over, so I've had to learn to talk about things other than computers :)

[OptiRex]

I play darts to relax

Along with a few well-earned beers?

I used to play tenpin bowling at national and international tournaments until the explosion of the Net ruined the five day working week:-(

I intend taking it up again shortly now that I have everything under much better control however getting back to the 200+ average may be easier said than done!

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

I find if I even mention what I do everyone glazes over

LOL! That's what I get from my circle of friends (until any of them have a problem with their computers) ;)

For myself, I find that getting gently p*ssed is quite relaxing.

[DamonHD]

Beers and Java coding for me!

Sad, innit!

Rgds

DHD

[Craig_F]

beer and xbox

[novice]

Do You Have A Social Life Outside Adsense?

AdSense has improved my social life. It's great having Google collect the revenue for me.

[wanderingmind]

Beer and Adsense! :-)

[asianguy]

To be honest, I lost my social life after i joined Google Adsense. My sites are time consuming.

[fearlessrick]

I used to sell on ebay quite a bit and that ruined my social life. Now I still do that a bit - though thankfully not as much - along with adsense, and my social life hasn't suffered (because I didn't have one).

Beer and beer for me, but if the weather ever improves (upstate NY) lots of bike riding and tennis.

I'm also considering running for president as a way to meet girls, if nothing else. My main platform will be something along the lines of "can't possibly be as bad as the current one," and "no party affiliation." May actually strike a chord with some. The campaign will be run 80% online funded by adsense clicks.

Now, don't go stealing my ideas... ;-)

[jetteroheller]

Why should be there a life outside AdSense?

I choose even the holiday target for my family with AdSense in mind.

When my 2 doughters maybe see Disney World Paris this year, it's only because their father is an AdSense publisher.

My wife started to study English in order to translate my sites better.

[ownerrim]

First-person-shooter format video games. I pretend the bad guys are responsible for epc fluctuations. Tends to get quite grisly onscreen.

[TheRookie]

The campaign will be run 80% online funded by adsense clicks.

I'd rather have a click fraud as my president than real fraud. :-)

[nutsandbolts]

Same here ownerrim. I nip into the other room and blast some nasties on Doom 3 Xbox, then pause the game and come back to check stats every 20 minutes.

[sirkei]

Will check stats each time before i log into Warcraft III and play custom DOTA game. And for my social life, i lost it since i came to the U.S. Life is complicated.

[Woz]

Social Life? I've heard of them.

Onya
Woz

[madmatt69]

How do I relax? I get the hell out of the house and remember why I quit my 9-5 in the first place. Work less, make more.

Sure if I worked myself to the bone I'd make more but..Why bother? I'm making decent money, I do still have the odd late night of work and I'm sustaining decent growth with the majority of my websites.

I got quite a bit done today, and still managed to hit the gym, go to karate, and I'll probably play a round of disc golf tonight.

There's no sense in making some extra money if you can't enjoy it.

[Emmett]

Now that summer is upon us (in the U.S.) and I finally have weekends off on the day job I've re-discovered the bar scene.

Since I'm nearing 30 I decided that I need to have a little fun before I get too far past my prime.

One day I may even have friends ;)

[OptiRex]

Not very scientific I know but the consensus so far:

1. Most of us like beer...not many tequila heads here then!

2. We realise the importance of getting our bums off our comfy seats and getting a bit/lot of excercise, fresh air, break.

3. You take your aggression out on computer games...

4. Adsense is a good source for supplementary income for family life.

5. An Adsenser will win the next US election easily and at no expense.

All in all we seem to be a reasonably well balanced bunch of geeks therefore I claim the win over website:-))

Now don't go upsetting me by pretending to be Marvin the paranoid android...Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy if you ain't seen it...premiered last night.

[niki_man]

My wife helps me log off... with scoldings...

These days, as I make more money I find myself checking my adsense results every hour.

I got to stop that.

I think the key is to diversify the source of your income.... AND invest your adsense money into real estate or some other slow by rewarding income vehicle.