Programming is thankless work best left undone if at all possible.
Being limited and tortured by some shitty design decision that someone made 10 years ago that you have to just live with is a special kind of hell that only developers, mechanics, and engineers understand.
that sounds like burnout as well. You can’t have your job also be your hobby and not burnout
I write programs for myself. I have learned enough C, Pascal, Fortran, Basic to write small things and even larger things like a visual file manager for MSDOS, or my own version of the venerable STAR TREK game. I even know of big O notation (But I don’t know how to calculate it for a given algorithm)
But I never wanted to be a programmer - having to work on other people’s programs 8 hours a day. That would ruin programming as a hobby. When I am self-directed it is fun.
I was a Data Center tech instead. Minding 3 football fields of other people’s computers.
Dude is burnt out in 6 years? I’ve been doing it 25+ professionally and still love it, started as a kid writing basic with the line numbers.
Cool, how much of your 25 years was to “write test automation to test the front end” full time?
This guy is in his 3th job after 6 years - so job-hopping every 2 years (as per the current programmer-job-meta. - ) trying to find the right job that fits him - but obviously he hopped into a disaster of a job. Its a personal anecdote of his experience so far.
If you have 25+ years of experience, but you can’t relate at all to what he’s experiencing, then this guy already has more experience than you do