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I don't and I'm bored AF!
This is unhealthy, try to find what you enjoy! At least a little bit. If you haven't noticed it yet this will start wearing you down.
Maybe the fundamental key is to work on a product that you care, that you want to use... I think it's important being proud of your job to keep motivation high.
Something like that I think.
Motivation is usually a product of mental health. Mental health is a product of a variety of things like work-life-balance, good sleep, healthy diet, physical exercise, and measured progression towards realistic goals. Optimize and improve on those, and you'll have more motivation and mental energy overall. Since full time work rarely makes good use of focused mental resources, you might be lucky if you have a couple…
This is a fantastic comment. Did you get your Motivation formula just from experience, or do you have a suggested reading where I get more info?
I don't. Turning my hobby into my career killed my hobby and, really, that's fine. It affords me a good life and the ability to discover and enjoy new hobbies. If you're worried about "keeping up," then I would suggest you 1) ignore the rat-race that is framework-of-the-day and 2) focus on learning fundamentals of your domain. Sure, you'll miss out on some hip startup jobs but typical employers don't care about your…
Ignoring the framework of the day and “learning the fundamentals” won’t get you past the either HR filters or make you competitive with developers who are constantly doing Resume Driven Development and have a resume that is buzzword compliant. Especially if you are an older developer (I’m 45) and you will just be seen as just another old out of touch developer. That being said, the further down the stack you go, the…
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And then after you get laid off from the vanishing few remaining companies using old tech and can’t find another job, you’ll be complaining about “ageism” on HN. If the market is paying higher than market salaries for the buzzword compliant “digital transformation consultant”, that’s what I will learn.
> And then after you get laid off from the vanishing few remaining companies using old tech and can’t find another job... As we speak, banks are migrating from systems written in cobol/fortran to systems written in java. I just got quite a few recruiters contacting me for open java jobs. Sure, frontend code was in angular and they offered training for it, but for some even angular might be considered to be "ancient"…
When the day comes that I do decide to leave my job and I leave by choice, I’m staying buzzword compliant enough to be an overpriced “cloud consultant”, “digital transportation consultant” or whatever the hype of the day is.
But, I wouldn’t take a job doing Angular knowing that React is more popular and I would rather add React to my resume than Angular.
Program projects that you really like and find interesting as recreation.
You'll have to force yourself to limit the paid programming but you'll totally burn out if you don't.
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Ignoring the framework of the day and “learning the fundamentals” won’t get you past the either HR filters or make you competitive with developers who are constantly doing Resume Driven Development and have a resume that is buzzword compliant. Especially if you are an older developer (I’m 45) and you will just be seen as just another old out of touch developer. That being said, the further down the stack you go, the…
Sounds like you went the corporate route in your career, which is totally fine. Compared to the startup route, it has its pros and cons, one of which is HR filters and people gaming the system to advance their careers. Just wanted to say that it’s not everyone’s experience, there’s a whole other world where that’s not a problem, but.. you know, there are different issues.
I don't. Turning my hobby into my career killed my hobby and, really, that's fine. It affords me a good life and the ability to discover and enjoy new hobbies. If you're worried about "keeping up," then I would suggest you 1) ignore the rat-race that is framework-of-the-day and 2) focus on learning fundamentals of your domain. Sure, you'll miss out on some hip startup jobs but typical employers don't care about your…
Ignoring the framework of the day and “learning the fundamentals” won’t get you past the either HR filters or make you competitive with developers who are constantly doing Resume Driven Development and have a resume that is buzzword compliant. Especially if you are an older developer (I’m 45) and you will just be seen as just another old out of touch developer. That being said, the further down the stack you go, the…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ignoring the framework of the day and “learning the fundamentals” won’t get you past the either HR filters or make you competitive with developers who are constantly doing Resume Driven Development and have a resume that is buzzword compliant. Especially if you are an older developer (I’m 45) and you will just be seen as just another old out of touch developer. That being said, the further down the stack you go, the…
You do learn framework of the day while job hunting. You do not have to learn every framework of the day while having a job.
Whether I am actively looking for a job or not, optionality is important.