I wish I had any other interest apart from programming...
In my bubble it seems every other programmer wants to quit to take up wood working or craft brewing. Third by some distance is people growing stuff, especially chili peppers.
Burnout Is Real
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#32I think burnout is just depression. but what do I know
Ive had both. For me, they are very different.
Burnout is not being able to make myself do a job I am completely capable of doing, which I once loved doing, to the point thoughts of self harm start to creep in.
Depression is feeling worthless about everything and anything.
With depression, I cannot do anything. With burnout, I can easily keep doing things, I just cant do that one thing.
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#33I wish I had any other interest apart from programming...
Also a programmer. Stepping away from the desk is often the best thing for me, not for long mind, just to smoke. Astounded by the number of times I have a programming problem and the solution just 'clicks' while I'm away from the screen. FWIW I'm not endorsing smoking, but removing yourself from the screen has benefits IMO. I don't have too many hobbies myself, and TBH love programming and staying on the steep learni…
> The only time I've felt burnout is part of a 50/50 company where the other guy wasn't pulling his weight
I have had that many times and I have been that guy. There is just something that needs to work; if someone is doing something and the other is not, that's another problem. It's probably not even what you think but you need to get out as fast as you can as that will end badly.
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#34I wish I had any other interest apart from programming...
I have tons of interests, just wish I had 'lucrative' interests. My deep knowledge of Star Wars and the NBA is not leveragable.
You never know, maybe Space Jam 3 will need you.
That's not entirely just a joke. People have changed industries and gotten into stuff through even weirder combinations of interests.
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#35Must be nice to be financially comfortable enough to give that up.
I’m glad that they’re addressing the issue, but how many people are stuck with the mortgage and the student debt and the family that needs almost every penny of their income to make ends meet for every person that has the resources to do drop out of the tech industry in less than half a year?
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#36I wish I had any other interest apart from programming...
I have tons of interests, just wish I had 'lucrative' interests. My deep knowledge of Star Wars and the NBA is not leveragable.
Yeah, that's been me all my life... That's why I went full in for programming. I wanted to make sure my biggest interest was also making money (if need be). I had to let that go and life is much easier. Wish I had done that earlier on. But yeah, you need to have some freedom to do that...
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#37I wish I had any other interest apart from programming...
I have tons of interests, just wish I had 'lucrative' interests. My deep knowledge of Star Wars and the NBA is not leveragable.
Why can't they be lucrative? Fire up SEMRush or something similar, find a niche around NBA or Star Wars that's partially attainable, spend some time building a website in that niche that covers your interests. Monetise the traffic.
That said, it's kind of nice to have interests that don't become 'work'.
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#39I never doubted it was real. But I never really understood what it meant until I was deeply depressed and couldn't get up from bed to go to work anymore. Ended up leaving my job at a FANG and taking a year long sabbatical before rejoining the workforce in a lower/less stressful position for a company not on tech. Sometimes it's still depressing to think o took such a hit in my career. Bit when I remember what I felt…
Don't feel bad if your mental health is in a much better place now.
You come first. No exceptions.
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#40I wish I had any other interest apart from programming...
In my bubble it seems every other programmer wants to quit to take up wood working or craft brewing. Third by some distance is people growing stuff, especially chili peppers.
Sounds like they have a different problem. They don't want to program but has to program to make money. The above posters likes to program and don't want to do other stuff.