Ask HN: Loosing Interest in Programming After Getting a Job. Any Advice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9655443
by falloutx • 11 years ago
6 5 11 years ago

I graduated with bottom of the class last year at low-rated college, but I was lucky to get a job at one big corporation(for almost good money).In Junior year, I started Learning Ruby on Rails, and liked it and in sometime I was able to get up from my bed to actually do something useful. In Senior year, I sat for one interview(The big corporation I mentioned), And talked about stuff I was trying to learn(including Mocha, Angular, Meteor etc) and they hired me. They had no Idea about anything I was talking about in the interview, they just figured I am intelligent and they hired me. I was a total noob.

It didn't end there, (Remember I graduated with lowest GPA in my class), The big corpo that hired me, made me work on stupid Java and XML, and most of the time it wasn't even programming. I quit in 6 months. Found a Job with Python and Javascript stuff at a small startup. Again I got this job by talking about stuff and doing a little programming.

I was happy, until I found out that the small startup was actually a lot older than I thought. They pay me good, but they have very small chance of growing up. They have a lot of legacy code, and thier JS code is also totally fucked up. I can't get my head around a lot of code they maintain. Mostly I sit there watching at my clock as time passes. I have taken 3 leaves in last 7 days, and 3 other days I was late by atleast 4 hours. Somehow, I am actually losing interest in programming, its just been a month at the new company.

All I think about these days is that I hate working for a big corpo, also small startups are bad now. I have no clue what I'll do the next day. I can leave this job also, but that would giving up 2 jobs in a year. Any Advice?

[Some Context: I am not actually a very bad programmer. I am ok. I have contributed to some open-source projects, was in top 100 in all hackerrank competitions in fall 2013-14, and also have one app on play store, downloaded 60K times]

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