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You'll do minimum coding unless you want to code for fun and try new ideas. If you have research funding you can become the project lead but the pressure is much less than industry since only prototyping demo not shipping.
The academic institutions will really appreciate your experiences and students as well.
I wish all the best for whatever you decided to do.
I can give you some advice. Imagine your favorite activity that you can do for free even on weekends. Look for such a job. I am a programmer from Russia. I live in Siberia. I have not been able to find a job for a year. I continue to look, but I have already started to do some part-time work. I participate in low-paid projects on image marking for training neural networks, checking the quality of their work. I wanted…
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I understand, but you might want to ask why you find coding so taxing on your mental health. Maybe coding per se doesn't cause the problem, but the rest of the job or work environment. I don't get the same pleasure from writing code that I did two or three decades ago, but I don't find it particularly frustrating or bad for my mental health, either. Perhaps you can come to terms with that. Any job will have frustrati…
I feel that most of it is pointless. I'm past the stage where I can argue with people over stupid engineering architecture decisions. It's all full of BS and ego. Most people would rather die defending their favorite language/stack/framework than change their POV. I'm tired of wasting my time on countless meetings trying to "convince my engineering team-mates to write tests/use strongly typed languages/avoid new-age…
I can relate. I code at home on my side projects, and enjoy solving coding issues at work once in a while, but I couldn’t sit and do it every day. The two easiest things you can do is either move to Engineering Management or to Product Management.
Consider taking a sabbatical if you can afford it. Reflect on what got you where you are today, and imagine where you want to be tomorrow. Let your mind disconnect from the day to day rigor of development. I have done this a few times in my career, and each time it keeps me centered on what is important to me. Hope this helps.
I'm taking a 9 month sabbatical next year so I can learn to enjoy coding again. It's not coding that bugs me, it's all the BS you have to deal with modern management practices that makes it unbearable. I did management a few times and didn't like it. Keep in mind that no matter what you do, if you're in a corporate environment, that's still going to be a problem.
Try teaching and lecturing position. You'll do minimum coding unless you want to code for fun and try new ideas. If you have research funding you can become the project lead but the pressure is much less than industry since only prototyping demo not shipping. The academic institutions will really appreciate your experiences and students as well. I wish all the best for whatever you decided to do.
I can give you some advice. Imagine your favorite activity that you can do for free even on weekends. Look for such a job. I am a programmer from Russia. I live in Siberia. I have not been able to find a job for a year. I continue to look, but I have already started to do some part-time work. I participate in low-paid projects on image marking for training neural networks, checking the quality of their work. I wanted…
It really sucks that most of us have to choose between doing something that we're interested in and doing something that pays the bills.