I feared that this would happen to me, and avoided a dev career for a long time. Eventually I realized that I needed a career and gave up. What I found was th

I feared that this would happen to me, and avoided a dev career for a long time. Eventually I realized that I needed a career and gave up. What I found was that despite how good I thought I was, I'm way better now and enjoy programming even more than before my career. I don't program at home nearly as much, but when I do it's for something I really want to make and it's very satisfying to be able to just whip it up. I spend all my struggling hours at work and can just use the knowledge at home now. Much, much better than spending all my free time struggling to figure things out and getting little done.