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I do some freelance work for a small business owner in which I code small Java apps that hook to the eBay and Amazon APIs, for the benefit of his business. It makes me a little money but I've recently asked for a pay rise.
Other than that, I want to make my own mobile apps using tools like Xamarin but I haven't really built up the confidence in myself to create any of my ideas. They mostly seem like things that have been done before or where I don't see that they might get as much use as the idea does in my head.
On top of that, I enjoy my free time. I find it very hard to come home and have the energy to code after my 9 to 5 where I've been doing the same thing, staring at a screen, 7 and a half hours. Instead, I try to exercise a fair bit and build hobbies outside of programming. I'm a bit of an everythingist, admittedly, though it's not a quality I think leads to becoming a master in programming.
Has anyone else faced similar problems to me? What is your answer to your own question, OP?
I work for a small map tech company and my job role is basically a graduate C# developer, with some configuration duties also to cater our product to different customers. I didn't know C#, only Java, before starting the job so it's been nice to learn about concepts like WPF and Linq this past year. I do some freelance work for a small business owner in which I code small Java apps that hook to the eBay and Amazon API…
Side projects: I've been tinkering with new approaches for doing MVC and templating in JS. See my projects on GitHub: https://github.com/kethinov
Current project is to allow researchers to send fully sequenced genomes to our server, align the sequenced genome to a referenced genome, then store the data in a performant way that can be queried against. Right now, its either too technical for the researchers or too expensive. I have dreams of making it something big but time is a limited resource as well as finding people who A) know how to build massive data platforms at scale and B) know enough about genomics to build the platform.
We're coming along well so far. The alignment of sequenced genomes to referenced genomes if done (although not scale ready yet). Currently working on/learning the data storage side and what to do there.
Shameless plug: if anyones interested in our project, we could use some help.
Side projects, a few gigs on Upwork.