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> most work is simply business logic and reinventing the same uninteresting wheel at a desk for 40hrs a week, I feel like a caged animal and cannot focus whatso

> most work is simply business logic and reinventing the same uninteresting wheel at a desk for 40hrs a week, I feel like a caged animal and cannot focus whatsoever. This is how I feel learning this week's popular JavaScript UI framework just to make a button appear on a webpage and handle a click, or here's another generic CRUD operation with a PUT on the controller, how enthralling! And my brain retreats from reality. Like it would rather off itself than take another step. And I'm not going to medicate that, I don't think it is "wrong" or anything to do with health. It just feels like part of me is speaking. Like my unconscious, or gut, or a combination thereof is signalling that this isn't the place for me. I need to move and spend my energy. Maybe I will quit the industry, or at least move away from webdev. Could probably extrapolate this experience to school - some kids aren't cut out for sitting still and learning how to factorise quadratics for the 4th time this week. (Speaking for myself again, but I got that the first time, why over and over again?). Thankfully I wasn't in school when medication was fashionable. I pity this generation.

MSFT_Edging 3y ago
I've only recently had to touch any kind of JS framework in my almost 6 years working. I'm trained far closer to hardware and I love hacking on embedded devices. I only got medicated as an adult because I'm just not designed to do the same thing day after day. I had a break at work where I was able to design basically a toy for some recruiting. Did the PCB design, firmware, handled manufacturing, designed 3d printed programming jigs, wrote the flashing scripts, etc. All in a span of about 3 months. I was born to prototype widgets and gadgets but society doesn't have a lot of use for that kind of interdisciplinary skillset. Folks will say "join a startup" but I needed a month to recover from the burnout of that push, so I don't think it'd be healthy for me to go somewhere that expects that LOE year round.
- HeckFeck 3y ago
  The idea that you will be steadily productive 9-5, 5 days a week, for most months of the year, is a post-Industrial expectation. Our ancestors knew mostly "long" days that ended at 5, followed by "slow" days that ended at 12. And the workdays shrunk in later months because there was less daylight. I do wonder if that's part of it - some of us aren't built for conventional work cycles, but most people are and it it is something we can't expect to reshape easily. My source is this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvk_XylEmLo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvk_XylEmLo

MSFT_Edging 3y ago

I've only recently had to touch any kind of JS framework in my almost 6 years working. I'm trained far closer to hardware and I love hacking on embedded devices. I only got medicated as an adult because I'm just not designed to do the same thing day after day. I had a break at work where I was able to design basically a toy for some recruiting. Did the PCB design, firmware, handled manufacturing, designed 3d printed programming jigs, wrote the flashing scripts, etc. All in a span of about 3 months. I was born to prototype widgets and gadgets but society doesn't have a lot of use for that kind of interdisciplinary skillset. Folks will say "join a startup" but I needed a month to recover from the burnout of that push, so I don't think it'd be healthy for me to go somewhere that expects that LOE year round.

HeckFeck 3y ago
The idea that you will be steadily productive 9-5, 5 days a week, for most months of the year, is a post-Industrial expectation. Our ancestors knew mostly "long" days that ended at 5, followed by "slow" days that ended at 12. And the workdays shrunk in later months because there was less daylight. I do wonder if that's part of it - some of us aren't built for conventional work cycles, but most people are and it it is something we can't expect to reshape easily. My source is this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvk_XylEmLo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvk_XylEmLo