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Ask HN: Post Burnout Ideas
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Re: Ask HN: Post Burnout Ideas
#122At least you're still working and haven't given up on that.
Re: Ask HN: Post Burnout Ideas
#123I spent hundreds of hours playing factorio. Video games allowed me back into the mode of thinking without any sense of external requirement. It was all on me to decide how deep I went and for how long. Eventually I played until I achieved boredom after over 900 hours. (Not all at once! Over months.) From that point of boredom I could see how much energy I had channeled into something pointless, and realized I had rec…
If you don't mind me asking, what are you now doing for a living if not coding for profit?
Re: Ask HN: Post Burnout Ideas
#124I spent hundreds of hours playing factorio. Video games allowed me back into the mode of thinking without any sense of external requirement. It was all on me to decide how deep I went and for how long. Eventually I played until I achieved boredom after over 900 hours. (Not all at once! Over months.) From that point of boredom I could see how much energy I had channeled into something pointless, and realized I had rec…
If you don't mind me asking, what are you now doing for a living if not coding for profit?
Technology integration and process improvement. Basically coding led to entry biz analysis, which then led to higher scoped integration projects. And as I saw repeated patterns from customers, I started taking on process improvement projects to help prepare orgs in a more general sense for eventual modernization.