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I want to love what I'm doing, but unfortunately there's few things that tickle my brain like this. What should I do, take ADHD meds and go to work, like everyone else?
I believe a lot of us here on HN would consider leaving programming for doing business. A lot (including myself) already did. Programming being very often about solving business needs, sometime in your career, you might be in a position to realize that it could make sense to go higher up the chain and build a company.
I would like to
- Work at a General Store - Be involved in a full movie / tv series making process ( Because movies have always had a deep impact on me, and I would love to contribute my ideas in that domain ) - Invent new food recipes - Research on Ancient History
It was interesting and a bit painful to not have access to source code and to be completely dependent on a slow process.
Programming is a creative art, and when I say that to my non-programmer friends, they laugh it off, but if you think about it, it is true. Just like artists, the programmers, coders, developers all design and create new things that didn't exist before, and no 2 programs or applications or completely functioning code will be identical for anything other than a fizzbuzz type test. So it is natural for the creatives to…
In general, when those thoughts crossed my mind it was when I was working a job I should have left already. There are good companies that value developers and/or give them a reasonably good balanced work environment. Generally the two go hand in hand. For places that don't, frustrations and poor practices tend to push us into less fulfilling lifestyles. But if pressed... Corporate pilot comes to mind. I've spend I do…
I left to get a PhD in math. Now I'm back, sort of.
Eventually, a few years ago, I started a company to make software for fiction authors.
Best of both worlds!
Take for example current js webdev, with a new hot tech every week.
We can't all become IT managers (nor want to)...