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Don't feel like coding anymore
| I feel you, g/u/rl. Been there as well. I didn't fix it and instead switched over job instead (not easy, but I did it!) — can't say I still enjoy programming in the same level like I used to back in my naive days, but I'd say it is slowly recovering.
| I guess even the most enjoyable hobbies/activities, given enough time, can be bland and uninteresting. At that point, you may want do something else that can interest you.
| Don't let your hobby become your work/vise versa. Started out working IT up to sysengineer work, now the last thing I want to do is spend time on a computer. Working on cars though, that's where it's at.
| That's what happens when you enter a field thinking you'd be fine doing the same thing over and over again.
| People don't do things for a paycheck because they enjoy them, they do it because they can tolerate it to make said paycheck. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to themselves. A job is a job. A hobby is a hobby. Don't mix the two.
Even prostitutes get tired of fucking eventually.
| Ok so the answer is to find a new hobby until I get a job that's not programming?
| Learn SAP. Still tech (kinda), but no programming.
| Oh, damn. And I was just starting a progeamming job. It has only been a hobby before, didn't even go to school for it. Now you folks are scaring me
| either make your own product (a non exclusive quick fix for small businesses,ex: web template), start teaching code, or something else you like but abandoned in the past
| >>117996 everything you like or dont like will eventually feels heavy if its a job. simply because thats the nature of job. not needing a job is the goal of doing a job
| There is truth in most of the posts here. No matter how dear a hobby, it becomes a chore when it becomes a job. But while usually one hates a job, when it used to be a hobby you dont hate it, just very narrowly escapes that feeling and you can tolerate it more.
This is why I want to switch industries, get out of computer related things completely and start teaching a foreign language or elementary physics.
| That's kinda disappointing to hear... Programming is also a hobby of mine, I was thinking of doing some sysop/sysadmin type shit, or as a last resource some software dev work, but hearing your laments just demotivates me haha. I've been getting better at math, and I like teaching, might consider becoming a lecturer too or something.
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| I used to love programming, but ever since I've started working professionally it's been getting harder to code for fun it's like things don't come to my brain as smoothly as before unless it's a task for the job...
I hate feeling like this I want to make stupid lame programs with no objective like before with ridiculous variable names and no Object orientation just for the kicks but it feels so bad and making pretty OO code feels like work so it is not fun either