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I love to program just for fun but as I've gotten older other interests have to be balanced against that and I have to stay current with the technology so while
by noir_lord 9y ago
I love to program just for fun but as I've gotten older other interests have to be balanced against that and I have to stay current with the technology so while I still program for fun I direct it in areas I know will be more useful to me at work.
When I was in my 20's it was very different to late 30's I had far fewer responsibilities so I think part of increased responsibility is knowing which problems to tackle.
- scarface74 9y agoI don't really enjoy programming as much as I use to. I enjoy "building systems". I've enjoyed building software departments, building network infrastructure in AWS, building autoscale systems and finding ways to avoid the drudgery of building stuff and leveraging pre existing building blocks that allow me to avoid the "undifferentiated heavy lifting". I take a perverse joy out of being able to rip out code that I wrote after finding a package on the internet that does the same thing. I'm not saying I don't enjoy development - but as a part of building the system. If I can find a hosted solution for a piece of infrastructure, I jump on it. I'm all in on "serverless". I would fail any algorithm type interview these days. I'm just not interested in algorithms. I'm much more interested in leveraging libraries/frameworks/infrastructure providers to get things done.
- scottLobster 9y agoAh, never mind my initial response then. You're just more a systems engineer than a pure software engineer. That's a completely different animal than just being in it for the money.