[It's... really nice to meet someone who seems to get it; someone who gets that playing around and relaxing isn't its own reward to some people.]
Yeah. My friends-- I love them all, they are really great, but they tell me to work less and "chill out" [The finger quotations come out again.] but... if I'm not doing the work, then who will? I know-- I'm not, like, self-centred enough to think I can solve everything but if I just solve one more case, that is still one more person helped. That's worth a few hours of work.
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Yeah. My friends-- I love them all, they are really great, but they tell me to work less and "chill out" [The finger quotations come out again.] but... if I'm not doing the work, then who will? I know-- I'm not, like, self-centred enough to think I can solve everything but if I just solve one more case, that is still one more person helped. That's worth a few hours of work.