This is unfortunate, but all to common. The joy of coding gets lost in politics, deadlines,.documentation and process. If this is you, you might want to give gig process work a shot. As a developer, you’re actually intimately familiar with how systems work and interact, abstraction, and the interactions between the boxes. I’m pushing 50, have 4 consulting retainers going that have been with me for over 10 years each, and I’m still feeling the same buzz of figuring out my customers processes, developing a solution and seeing it implemented as I designed. Coding is the drudgery, but when you’re playing a meaningful part in effecting company wide change, it’s something else.
I’ve heard this a few times and honestly would love to do it. But I don’t really know where to get started. Any pointers?
I used to work in MNC consulting (big-5, tier-1 clients), but started a side gig for a friend’s sme company on weekends - it kinda grew from there. I had an opportunity to get into pretty much the entire business and mess around/ optimize different aspects of it, and built systems where they were needed, and as a nice side effect developed an intimate knowledge of said business aspects. End result? I have deep knowledge of particular niche segment and in my country at least, in this segment, I can confidently say I service, or have serviced the majority of companies.
Tl;dr: keep your ears open, find a friendly opportunity and work it hard. It gets easier as you go along.
