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Ask HN: Software devs with 10 years experience, what do you still love about it?

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Re: Ask HN: Software devs with 10 years experience, what do you still love about it?

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Post by 999900000999 »

Been in it for about 9 years excluding some early non salary work.

I just love the freedom, even before COVID. You could ask an employer to let you work remote for a couple of weeks.I did this a few times.

I really like being alone, and just not being bothered. I put it this way at a bar yesterday, I don't need to socialize at work. I'm socializing right now.

Plus this is one of the only fields where you can still teach yourself everything you need to know in order to make an insane amount of money. You don't need a bunch of expensive tools.

At the same time, you should invest a minimal amount of money in yourself. I saw a post on Reddit once where someone ranted that their employer wouldn't let them work at home as they didn't have a personal computer. How are you typing things up like your resume ?

If you invest a relatively small amount of money in yourself, you going to have an amazing life. But if you sit around complaining and whining all day about how unfair the world is, your life is just going to be bad

Re: Ask HN: Software devs with 10 years experience, what do you still love about it?

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Post by DesiLurker »

ericb wrote: post #17

I can make stuff that has never existed before. I can make stuff that changes businesses. I can make stuff that changes lives. I do this with my mind, with no raw materials. My ideas and time are the only limits. How could someone with creative fire not love this?

adding one more to it, I can make stuff that can be potentially consumed by millions. up until turn of the century you'd need resources of a king or a industrialist to be able to touch that many people.

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Post by SeriousM »

I have 20 yrs now in mainly c# but also js,ts,sql,ruby,etc,etc,..... I really love the way how programming fits into my head and how I can remember quite every code I wrote though the years. What I hate is that I don't learn anything new, no matter how much I try to explore new concepts. Everything is a remix... But hey, now I have much more time to learn cyber security and piano :) Btw, I looooove the HN community spirit and diversity.

Re: Ask HN: Software devs with 10 years experience, what do you still love about it?

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Post by polishdude20 »

nickd2001 wrote: post #11

Having done over 25 yrs , the creativity of it, finding elegant solutions to problems, satisfaction of taming a spaghetti code mess and cleaning it up , learning arcane uber-geeky ways of doing things and amusing others with these tricks, intellectual satisfaction / keeping the brain in shape, having colleagues with good senses of humour and lively minds, (particularly the delightfully twisted silly jokes/banter peop…

> having colleagues with good senses of humour and lively minds, (particularly the delightfully twisted silly jokes/banter people come up with after spending hours on weird abstract problems that are incomprehensible to most people

How do you find coworkers like these? Haha.

Re: Ask HN: Software devs with 10 years experience, what do you still love about it?

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Post by polishdude20 »

Mo3 wrote: post #16

Good question. I have 10 years of professional experience under my belt now. 10 years before that, from the age of 10 I was spending 100% of my free time playing with and learning programming languages. I think an important piece to this puzzle lies in not getting attached to one specific field of application. Worked for about 3 years in a regular run-of-the-mill agency / website shop. Not very interesting, but good…

What was excruciating about working in e-commerce?

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Post by walleeee »

smackeyacky wrote: post #6

35 years of coding. Edit actually its 40 this year whew. Making things nobody ever saw before (current role). Inventing a new kind of service nobody saw before that allows farmers to do things that were impossible. Taking a boring, time consuming part of somebodies day and making it disappear so they can do more interesting things. Occasionally hiding something fun in code that makes somebody smile. Mastery over thin…

Out of curiosity, what are you building for farmers?

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Post by softwarebeware »

I'm at 18 years and I still love solving the daily mysteries about why a system is behaving a certain way or how to optimize something so that it is more efficient. The whole diagnostic / debugging / problem-solving process is something I'll never grow tired of.

Re: Ask HN: Software devs with 10 years experience, what do you still love about it?

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Post by softwarebeware »

ericb wrote: post #17

I can make stuff that has never existed before. I can make stuff that changes businesses. I can make stuff that changes lives. I do this with my mind, with no raw materials. My ideas and time are the only limits. How could someone with creative fire not love this?

I can ride my bike with no handlebars...

...sorry, couldn't resist.

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