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At the risk of geting downvoter I'll repeat again and again what I feel is the bitter truth. This is a pretty childish unprofessional approach to look for some

At the risk of geting downvoter I'll repeat again and again what I feel is the bitter truth. This is a pretty childish unprofessional approach to look for some _inspiration_. As if a job has the responsibility to make you happy and fix your personal issues. If an opportunity in modern economy to make a decent money is not enough an inspiration for you - no magic new shiny thing will inspire you for long.

HomelyQuarter38 2y ago
This is the exact opposite of what I was asking for. Instead of quitting my job I want to learn to like my job again. The job doesn't have a responsibility to me, I have a responsibility to get better and part of that is maintaining my career. Did you even read the post?
- deleted 2y ago
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- aristofun 2y ago
  You’re asking for an inspiration? My answer is you need to learn to work without any inspiration, just because you’re signed a contrAct and getting paid. Sorry if didn’t make it clear.
  - HomelyQuarter38 2y ago
    Ok that makes sense. Maybe easier said than done. Sorry if I came off as rude
mindwork 2y ago
I totally agree that a true professional approach is view it as a job rather than an creative or inspirational outlet in your life. And I follow this approach. I see it as a marathon rather than a sprint. That said, posts like this are common on HN. People burning out and get disillusioned with their jobs. Or loose meaning in tech. Could this be because 15-20 years ago in order to get in to the industry you had to have a certain passion and curiosity in order to get through the forest of very technical tools and programming languages in order to run anything. Industry was not mature and there was a lot of hype around it's wins, it was literally changing the world. Software was eating the world quickly. Books like "Passionate programmer" and "Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers" were promising us the land of endless rewards if we pour our whole selves in to the job and forget about anything else. But nowadays, 20 years of growth, billions of LOC and millions of people came in to the industry. Now we've got the understanding that it was just a job after all. And instead of pouring your self in to it, the sustainable way is to treat it like a job and also have a life outside of it. Hedge your bets if you will, because life is more than tech
- scarface_74 2y ago
  > Could this be because 15-20 years ago in order to get in to the industry you had to have a certain passion and curiosity in order to get through the forest of very technical tools and programming languages in order to run anything. In 2010, you could choose a tech stack - .Net or Java and learn it well enough to get a full stack implementation done along with JavaScript and choose an RDMS. Not too much different than today. Today it’s worse with the clusterfuck of the front end ecosystem. The iOS SDK was already mature and the Android SDK was getting mature 2005 was about the same. But then if you wanted to build a mobile app you either used whatever Java was doing or the Windows Compact Framework. Even back in 2000 it wasn’t that bad. I haven’t had “passion” for computer science since entering college and I was a hobbyist before then
thorin 2y ago
This isn't often discussed on here. If I speak to my friends who are accountants, lawyers, doctors they generally aren't that inspired by their work either. I tend to find managers are often quite enthusiastic about work, and I think that's because the personality type required to do that sort of thing requires that enthusiasm. The only other class of people who often seem pretty enthusiastic are university researchers, but times are not great for universities in the UK right now.

HomelyQuarter38 2y ago

This is the exact opposite of what I was asking for. Instead of quitting my job I want to learn to like my job again. The job doesn't have a responsibility to me, I have a responsibility to get better and part of that is maintaining my career. Did you even read the post?

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aristofun 2y ago
You’re asking for an inspiration? My answer is you need to learn to work without any inspiration, just because you’re signed a contrAct and getting paid. Sorry if didn’t make it clear.
- HomelyQuarter38 2y ago
  Ok that makes sense. Maybe easier said than done. Sorry if I came off as rude

mindwork 2y ago

I totally agree that a true professional approach is view it as a job rather than an creative or inspirational outlet in your life. And I follow this approach. I see it as a marathon rather than a sprint. That said, posts like this are common on HN. People burning out and get disillusioned with their jobs. Or loose meaning in tech. Could this be because 15-20 years ago in order to get in to the industry you had to have a certain passion and curiosity in order to get through the forest of very technical tools and programming languages in order to run anything. Industry was not mature and there was a lot of hype around it's wins, it was literally changing the world. Software was eating the world quickly. Books like "Passionate programmer" and "Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers" were promising us the land of endless rewards if we pour our whole selves in to the job and forget about anything else. But nowadays, 20 years of growth, billions of LOC and millions of people came in to the industry. Now we've got the understanding that it was just a job after all. And instead of pouring your self in to it, the sustainable way is to treat it like a job and also have a life outside of it. Hedge your bets if you will, because life is more than tech

scarface_74 2y ago
> Could this be because 15-20 years ago in order to get in to the industry you had to have a certain passion and curiosity in order to get through the forest of very technical tools and programming languages in order to run anything. In 2010, you could choose a tech stack - .Net or Java and learn it well enough to get a full stack implementation done along with JavaScript and choose an RDMS. Not too much different than today. Today it’s worse with the clusterfuck of the front end ecosystem. The iOS SDK was already mature and the Android SDK was getting mature 2005 was about the same. But then if you wanted to build a mobile app you either used whatever Java was doing or the Windows Compact Framework. Even back in 2000 it wasn’t that bad. I haven’t had “passion” for computer science since entering college and I was a hobbyist before then

thorin 2y ago

This isn't often discussed on here. If I speak to my friends who are accountants, lawyers, doctors they generally aren't that inspired by their work either. I tend to find managers are often quite enthusiastic about work, and I think that's because the personality type required to do that sort of thing requires that enthusiasm. The only other class of people who often seem pretty enthusiastic are university researchers, but times are not great for universities in the UK right now.