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Nice read. I've been doing web dev for 15 years. What has got me burnt out now: -Spend most of my time dealing with tooling issues. -Increasingly complex dema

Nice read. I've been doing web dev for 15 years. What has got me burnt out now: -Spend most of my time dealing with tooling issues. -Increasingly complex demands. Even the simplest problems now seems to be multi layered with dozens of edge cases to be accounted for. It's seemingly impossible to get anything right. You can spend hours testing a responsive design on every browser, every viewport - send it to the client and you'll get after 5 minutes a list of 50 issues, half of them totally asinine. -Lack of respect/authority/autonomy. After 15 years I'm considered a subordinate to a PM with 6 months experience and zero technical knowledge. This one can be improved a little by working remotely I think. But it just comes down to how management view or value different roles. We are a liability to them, something to be managed, coerced and controlled. -Oversaturated market, learntocode, let's be honest and say for 95% of companies, web devs are a commodity. I don't have an issue with people who are excited and want to learn coding, but the reality is the job market is over stuffed. -Leetcode interviews. I just don't have the energy, desire and sometimes specific knowledge to deal with these interviews. Its a straight no from me now, if i get contacted by a recruiter requesting I do one of these. I can see clearly that other people in non technical fields are getting paid better or the same as me and dealing with far far less work and far less stress. It's like there are two type of work category: "reviewers" and "implementers". Reviewers are the stakeholders, they make all the demands and do none (or very little/superficial) of the actual work. Implementers, well we are the ones who do the heavy lifting and deal with all the real problems.

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thedanbob 5y ago
> -Spend most of my time dealing with tooling issues. I just spent 3 days debugging a bizarre frontend issue. Turns out I just didn't understand how webpack works and was loading it wrong. And once I fixed that, I had to fix my postcss config because something somewhere had a breaking change at some point. I feel like almost everything I learn these days is how to deal with the idiosyncrasies of dozens of versions of dozens of tools. My actual programming ability is stagnant. That's what's burning me out.
- dntrkv 5y ago
  Do not use Webpack for small personal projects. Zero-config tools like Parcel are much better for that.
- 5350-uiop-1130 5y ago
  Yes, I recently installed an npm package I built about 4 months ago and got an error the main attribute in the package.json file is deprecated. Googled it, without any meaningful search results. Just a small taste of my day, another rabbit hole to get lost in for a few hours whilst deadlines for actual work are looming.
vesuvianvenus 5y ago
>-Oversaturated market, learntocode, let's be honest and say for 95% of companies, web devs are a commodity. I don't have an issue with people who are excited and want to learn coding, but the reality is the job market is over stuffed. It's interesting you say that. Based on one source [1] there is a 10% decrease in job outlook 2020-2030 for "computer programmers". Another says [2] there is a 22% increase in job outlook 2020-2030 for "Software Developers, Quality Assurance Analysts, and Testers" "Info Security Analyst" [3] shows a 33% increase in job outlook 2020-2030 Yet in another another... The annual projected job openings for software developer for 2018 - 2028 is 134,000. [4] That's 1.34 million job openings over the course of those ten years. [1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/computer-programmers.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/... [2]https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/software-developers.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/... [3] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/information-security-analysts.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/... [4] Visualize it: Wages and projected openings by occupation Domingo Angeles and Elka Torpey | November 2019 -- https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2019/article/wages-and-openings.htm?view_full#s1 https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2019/article/wages-and-ope...
- Tarucho 5y ago
  Maybe the poster is in another country. I live in a third world contry where most work is grunt off-shored work. Most positions here are for devs with 1-3 years of experience, and there are loads of them. If you are more experienced and want a good job you need to work remote with an overseas company.

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thedanbob 5y ago

> -Spend most of my time dealing with tooling issues. I just spent 3 days debugging a bizarre frontend issue. Turns out I just didn't understand how webpack works and was loading it wrong. And once I fixed that, I had to fix my postcss config because something somewhere had a breaking change at some point. I feel like almost everything I learn these days is how to deal with the idiosyncrasies of dozens of versions of dozens of tools. My actual programming ability is stagnant. That's what's burning me out.

dntrkv 5y ago
Do not use Webpack for small personal projects. Zero-config tools like Parcel are much better for that.
5350-uiop-1130 5y ago
Yes, I recently installed an npm package I built about 4 months ago and got an error the main attribute in the package.json file is deprecated. Googled it, without any meaningful search results. Just a small taste of my day, another rabbit hole to get lost in for a few hours whilst deadlines for actual work are looming.

vesuvianvenus 5y ago

>-Oversaturated market, learntocode, let's be honest and say for 95% of companies, web devs are a commodity. I don't have an issue with people who are excited and want to learn coding, but the reality is the job market is over stuffed. It's interesting you say that. Based on one source [1] there is a 10% decrease in job outlook 2020-2030 for "computer programmers". Another says [2] there is a 22% increase in job outlook 2020-2030 for "Software Developers, Quality Assurance Analysts, and Testers" "Info Security Analyst" [3] shows a 33% increase in job outlook 2020-2030 Yet in another another... The annual projected job openings for software developer for 2018 - 2028 is 134,000. [4] That's 1.34 million job openings over the course of those ten years. [1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/computer-programmers.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/... [2]https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/software-developers.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/... [3] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/information-security-analysts.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/... [4] Visualize it: Wages and projected openings by occupation Domingo Angeles and Elka Torpey | November 2019 -- https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2019/article/wages-and-openings.htm?view_full#s1 https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2019/article/wages-and-ope...

Tarucho 5y ago
Maybe the poster is in another country. I live in a third world contry where most work is grunt off-shored work. Most positions here are for devs with 1-3 years of experience, and there are loads of them. If you are more experienced and want a good job you need to work remote with an overseas company.