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A lot of these negative comments here have ground, but you should keep your head high and continue developing your skills and character! I wrote a lot of stuff like this when I was younger and got similar criticism. You're doing great for sure, but you might find yourself cringing at this a few years in the future! What you've written and worked on so far is indicative of very positive future growth. <3
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My experience of working on teams has mainly consisted of working with other web developers online. On the topic of burnout, I was trying to explain how as I was learning web development and working harder everyday, I got exhausted mentally and didn't know how to come back from it.
Sounds like you're a person just like everybody else.
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Burnout for a 15 year old is when you’re tired of playing counterstrike and switch to overwatch for a little while.
Teenagers experience burnout all the time, this is not exclusive to adults. They have a ton of busy work thrown at them if they want to excel academically and the competition to get into good schools straight out of high school is a lot tougher than getting a good job or transferring into those schools. Clearly the OP has set a much higher bar for themselves as a teenager than most of us ever did. I think most of the…
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Burnout for a 15 year old is when you’re tired of playing counterstrike and switch to overwatch for a little while.
It could also be a 15 year old who started suffering from a debilitating musculoskeletal chronic illness at age 11, without parents who gave the slightest shit about them and zero community support, still trying their hardest to get through the hardest classes their school offers and doing the shadiest shit they possibly can to make money to feed themselves as it's illegal to work at that age. Broaden your horizons,…
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Burnout for a 15 year old is when you’re tired of playing counterstrike and switch to overwatch for a little while.
Considering the username, I'm surprised this comment felt necessary. The feelings and burnout of a 15 year old is just as legitimate as those of any adult. It may be that the level of stress that will cause burnout is lower, but that should be expected for someone who is young and learning to cope with the challenges of work. Not all 15 year olds have the same lives or problems, and it's quite insulting to trivialize…
I'm sorry but I just am a little incredulous that a 15 year old would be talking to me about burnout.. or about team conflict. Op have u worked a full time job with other devs and if so for how long?
I find this attitude incredibly arrogant and toxic. Why wouldn't a 15 year old be able to experience a burnout? I don't think this is age related at all. If anything a 15 year old that goes to school and has a dev job should be more likely to burnout.
Keep at it, build things you like, learn to love the process not just the results.
I like your first 2 pieces of advice, but hate your third. Build things that are useful, and do your best to make them things you like. Process be damned. And keep on keepin' on.
> Many game developers are in it only for the final product, and the process is just what they have to go through to get there. I respect that, but my motivation is a bit different.
> For me, while I do take a lot of pride in shipping a great product, the achievements along the way are more memorable. I don’t remember any of our older product releases, but I remember the important insights all the way back to using CRTC wraparound for infinate smooth scrolling in Keen (actually, all the way back to understanding the virtues of structures over parallel arrays in apple II assembly language..). Knowledge builds on knowledge.
This really resonated for me, and might be along the lines of what GP meant. I don't know if that was your interpretation or not, but I thought it was an interesting perspective regardless.
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Burnout for a 15 year old is when you’re tired of playing counterstrike and switch to overwatch for a little while.
Considering the username, I'm surprised this comment felt necessary. The feelings and burnout of a 15 year old is just as legitimate as those of any adult. It may be that the level of stress that will cause burnout is lower, but that should be expected for someone who is young and learning to cope with the challenges of work. Not all 15 year olds have the same lives or problems, and it's quite insulting to trivialize…
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It could also be a 15 year old who started suffering from a debilitating musculoskeletal chronic illness at age 11, without parents who gave the slightest shit about them and zero community support, still trying their hardest to get through the hardest classes their school offers and doing the shadiest shit they possibly can to make money to feed themselves as it's illegal to work at that age. Broaden your horizons,…
It could be, but it also isn't true.
Or do you think something like I've stated doesn't/cannot happen?
Meant this to be an example of other ways "burnout" can happen.