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I had a similar problem - though it was after a decade of work. At the end of the day, I'd come to hate technology, writing software, engineering management (es
by cik 13y ago
I had a similar problem - though it was after a decade of work. At the end of the day, I'd come to hate technology, writing software, engineering management (especially), and pretty much the entire industry. And, in the interest of full disclosure - I had some pretty good management.
But I was burning out. I changed careers (within tech) and became a Scrum Master, only to find that I started to miss coding and problem solving, since those skills were rarely in use.
Then, I moved into consulting. I've never looked back. I try to balance multiple clients at the same time, because love having the different challenges these clients require. All of a sudden I'm focusing on a core competency (DevOps in my case), but I get to see the world from Python, C#, Java, and even Physical Hardware scenarios. But that generalist approach doesn't work for everyone.
Try different things. See if you can take a couple of hours a week to poke around with new technologies, or industries. Trying to take the bull by its horns is the key.