The Recovering Programmer

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by 10ren • 17 years ago

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moron4hire• 17 years ago

Wow, you just described my very same path into programming, albeit it appears mine was 15 - 20 years after yours. Could you talk a little more about your "fix" for this issue? Was it more of just an epiphany that helped you deal with work related stress?

I'm afraid that I can't have the quality of home life that I want if I ditch on my programming career, but I'll never have the quality of career life that I want if I don't. I love programming, but not when it's retardo CRUD sites.

noss• 17 years ago

You have arrived at the right site. Though, there used to be many articles posted here to motivate people to break away from golden handcuffs. I suggest you try to find a way to cut down on working hours that works financially for you, to kick-start some side-business of your own.

Make something that you will keep and own. Preferably something you can get a passive income from. Experience a warm fuzzy feeling when you realize that you are actually doing profitable stuff without being at a big slow company with meetings and otherwise uncreative work culture.

This side-business phase is where I am at. I can attest to a different mood about salary slavery after getting to it. I know I'll never become rich on a salary. I need work to be more than a trade of hours of my life for money. While I am at work I need to learn new things. While I am at work I need to take the responsibility myself for making my future workdays less painful since I'll hang around for an unknown time.

The consequences of feeling I can give my workplace the finger and work full-time on my project to make it on my own, is that at work I automate the tedious tasks, I take a more active role in improving business processes that I see quality flaws in. I put in the extra effort to streamline things so that my coming workdays can be spent on things I don't feel is beneath me.

So who knows, maybe this will work out with me getting a better work career even if my side-project doesn't work out, that it was just a catalyst for me to realize I'm responsible for my own work situation not sucking. I hope my projects do work out though. :)

houseabsolute• 17 years ago

I would love to see the source code of the site.

arvinjoar• 17 years ago

Wow, I never thought of it that way. Maybe we need to look more to our artistic side and less to our technical side? I started programming because I was interested in creating a text-based game that was going to be more fun to play than the one I was already playing, at first, it was an artistic drive that got me to do it. But the technical aspects soon took over as I learned more about programming and as the problem solving got more interesting. I really need to go back and find that artistic drive.

The Recovering Programmer

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