I gave up trying to find a job that I "love". Don't get me wrong I absolutely enjoy programming, I love many aspects of it, there are just too many things out of my control.
I found hobbies like home improvement, home automation, pet projects around development a lot more "lovable" and easier to stick to.
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#62After 15 years as a freelance developer I’ve started a rural wireless ISP. It hasn’t entirely displaced my freelance work, but allows me to help people in a way that being a developer didn’t (tangibly, at least). Now I install internet access for people, on infrastructure I have built, and I see how happy they are when they go from 2 to 100mbps (this is often in a field in the middle of nowhere). This means they can…
That sounds extremely gratifying, congrats on finding a passion that's so beneficial to the people around you.
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#63I love to write code, I love to ship products and I love to build businesses. But what I really love, what drives me, is solving interesting problems. That's my entire career. Solve interesting problems. "We're building a web2.0 exercise tracking..." No! "We're putting health records on the block..." Nein! "We're improving how people buy insuran..." Non! "We're creating a mobile app to submit expens..." Nee! "We're b…
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#64Civilization relies mostly on people doing things that they don't love.
Plumbers may like to plumb, but they don't like doing it in bad conditions or as many hours as they do. Same for farmers, construction workers, garbagemen, and so on.
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#66Not sure it will "solve it"... yet following Adam's (Douglas?) suggestion to become top-25% in three fields. Then merge those fields. That has worked awesome for me. I merged technolgy (software dev/sys adm) with motor sports and with management. Love it so far. Good luck and Merry Christmas!!
Got curious, and it looks like it was Scott Adams, at least the source I found
https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/car...
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#67After 15 years as a freelance developer I’ve started a rural wireless ISP. It hasn’t entirely displaced my freelance work, but allows me to help people in a way that being a developer didn’t (tangibly, at least). Now I install internet access for people, on infrastructure I have built, and I see how happy they are when they go from 2 to 100mbps (this is often in a field in the middle of nowhere). This means they can…
I've thought of doing something like this in southern Utah ... but we've got 1 gig fiber even in some smaller communities... but there probably are certain places that don't have good coverage..
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#68I love talking, so started my own podcast in my native language (Telugu). Always wanted to talk on stage or do stream on YouTube but never was confident but with podcast I can speak anything I want and don’t worry about anyone judging me.
Even though I don’t have very large number of subscribers but I am satisfied with the few people who listen and like . I don’t do any post processing, just raw recording.
Any interested listeners can check out it at -
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vinandi-na-sodi-telugu...
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#69I fell in love with developing measurement equipment. It started in grad school, realizing that I really wasn't cut out for a basic research career (in a massively overcrowded academic job market), but that I got a lot of satisfaction from being able to solve hard technical problems. Today, measurement systems combine many of my hobbies, including electronics and programming. I would get bored with becoming a special…
Hey, are you interested in climate change at all? Would you be interested in developing new measuring equipment for methane emissions in rice paddies? This is a completely white space. https://www.ricemethane.org/ Let me know, thanks!
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#70Follow the Döpamine. I listen to my brain very carefully, and when it shows the slightest interest in anything, I pursue that interest. I have bad ADHD, and it’s the only thing that has ever really helped.