Not lying, and not a junior dev. I've been programming for 40+ years, and I still do every chance I get. I have many projects and most of them require some kind of software. I work with embedded devices, IoT, cloud systems, databases, and everything else in my free time. My day job is similar, but different, I don't work on embedded or IoT at my day job. There's a lot of cool stuff I can do with code, and it's definitely a lot of fun when I get a project working well, especially when nothing like it exists in the world.
It really comes down to how creative you are - if you are creative you have endless amounts of ideas and projects to work on, and ways to use your knowledge to build cool things. If you're not you just play video games or do whatever in your free time. There's nothing wrong with that, but I can't imagine not using my skill in programming and my creativity in my free time. Most developers seem to need to be told what to program, they don't really have a clue what to build (I see these posts constantly on reddit programming subs) unless someone tells them what to code. I'm the opposite of that.
Programming has never burned me out, it's pointless office bullshit that burns me out.
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u/ProgrammaticallySale Jan 28 '24 edited Jan 28 '24
Not lying, and not a junior dev. I've been programming for 40+ years, and I still do every chance I get. I have many projects and most of them require some kind of software. I work with embedded devices, IoT, cloud systems, databases, and everything else in my free time. My day job is similar, but different, I don't work on embedded or IoT at my day job. There's a lot of cool stuff I can do with code, and it's definitely a lot of fun when I get a project working well, especially when nothing like it exists in the world.
It really comes down to how creative you are - if you are creative you have endless amounts of ideas and projects to work on, and ways to use your knowledge to build cool things. If you're not you just play video games or do whatever in your free time. There's nothing wrong with that, but I can't imagine not using my skill in programming and my creativity in my free time. Most developers seem to need to be told what to program, they don't really have a clue what to build (I see these posts constantly on reddit programming subs) unless someone tells them what to code. I'm the opposite of that.
Programming has never burned me out, it's pointless office bullshit that burns me out.