I don’t enjoy coding. I haven’t enjoyed coding since the first 6 years I started coding in 6th grade in 1986 in a combination of Basic and assembly through 1992

I don’t enjoy coding. I haven’t enjoyed coding since the first 6 years I started coding in 6th grade in 1986 in a combination of Basic and assembly through 1992 when I graduated high school. After that it was to get my degree and after that it was to exchange labor for money to fund my life. There hasn’t been a time since 1996 that I haven’t had some outside interest that I would rather be doing than sitting down at a computer after work. While my official title hasn’t been “software engineer” since 2020 and the last time I had to get a job based solely on my coding ability was 2012, I am still at 51 expected to know how to spit out production level code as part of my job. If AI can help me create code that gets me paid faster so be it. At 51, no one hires me based on my coding skills or even interviews me based on it.