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>Of these options, what are your greatest challenges to productivity as a developer? Select up to 3: I feel like this is missing an important option. "Boring w
by pandapower2 8y ago
>Of these options, what are your greatest challenges to productivity as a developer? Select up to 3:
I feel like this is missing an important option. "Boring work".
Right now I'm slogging through an unenjoyable project and finding it incredibly hard to focus and get tasks done. Its so hard to push through one difficult yet dull task knowing there is yet another difficult yet dull task right behind it.
- hawos 8y agoI'd've also liked "No work", can't be productive if there's nothing to do.
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoI wonder though; a lot of work is menial, boring work. What makes that bearable for those that do it? Or is there enough diversity in there that keeps people there for 40+ years?
- Piskvorrr 8y agoIn our line of work, at least, some menial work can be scripted away. That, and some yak-shaving, could alleviate boredom ;)
- Scarblac 8y agoBecause the people who become software developers do that because at first it required a lot of focus and creativity. When they've done it for a while and have to implement the 34th variation of essentially the same thing, those are the same people whose mind wanders. When I did menial, boring work, my mind could wander enough to play blindfold chess with my colleagues without making illegal moves, and I'd still be productive. But when my mind wanders now, I already have a browser open and Reddit is a few touches away, and you can't browse Reddit at the same time as writing code. That's the other thing, there is a whole industry trying to grab our attention and keep it, and it's present in the same web browser that I use all the time during development.
- Scarblac 8y agoExactly the one I was missing. Also distracting Internet sites (which is separate from distracting work environment), but they wouldn't be as much of a problem if the work wasn't so boring.