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Do you find that you then have more time and energy to code on the side on your own things as a hobby? Or do you get enough of a “hit” from being code-adjacent
by merrywhether 5y ago
Do you find that you then have more time and energy to code on the side on your own things as a hobby? Or do you get enough of a “hit” from being code-adjacent and spend that mindspace elsewhere?
- wayoutthere 5y agoIt’s close enough to my day job that I don’t really do much coding anymore. I burned out pretty hard on it a decade ago so it just feels like work. I scratch that itch with other things now (music, competition shooting, community activism). There are plenty other ways to exercise an analytical mind.
- merrywhether 5y agoThanks for the reply, and what you say makes sense and is a familiar tale. Weirdly a lot of people describe their coding past with a burnout, reassessment, and subsequent pullback, almost like a drug relationship. Kudos on the community activism; talk about building something of meaning.
- wayoutthere 5y agoI really do think grinding code is a young person’s game. It takes the kind of mental stamina you can only sustain for so long before life gets in the way.