Should I Quit Programming?
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Hi there, I need your help and advice in this… I have a programming analyst diploma with GPA 3.8. I work as a programmer for 4 years in a medical corporation. I am successful at my work and I get every task given to me done. Currently, I am holding 4 projects. The problem is: I am not interested in programming I just do my job because I have to. I don’t feel I love my job. I don’t like going to work. I find it very hard to move from .NET framework 1.1 to 2.0 to 3.5. Even if I start reading a programming book or article I don’t really understand every thing. I find my self interested more in software installing and troubleshooting, Computer maintenance, user support. Should I quit programming because I don’t like it? Please I seek your advice.
Programming: Love It or Leave It[^]
Todd Smith
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OK Im not going to tell you what you should or shouldn't do that's not my style but I will give you somethings to think about.
NinaWilliam wrote:
Currently, I am holding 4 projects
This is bad not on your part on your managers. It stinks of too much work and not enough programmers and is the quickest way to wear out the programmers. Simply put when you are skipping between projects nothing gets full attention everything is rushed and unfocused there is only one outcome of having this many projects on the go and that is the programmer becomes irritable and bored with the work, any interest in programming begins to fade because the work becomes drudgery and trying to keep to schedules and meet unrealistic requirements.
NinaWilliam wrote:
I find it very hard to move from .NET framework 1.1 to 2.0 to 3.5.
Do you even need to? What is it in your project that requires the upgrade? Or are you simply doing it because it's the latest thing?
NinaWilliam wrote:
Even if I start reading a programming book or article I don’t really understand every thing.
You probably never will either a lot of stuff in programming languages can be very specialised to specific areas if you dont need it. Get an over view so you know the basics but dont sweat the details until it becomes relevant to your work. There will always you be areas of programming you know little or nothing about, either because you have forgotten it through not using it for so long or because it was never relevant to your work in the first place. A good programmer knows what their weak points are as well as their strong points. I dont mean this as criticism I personally can come up with quite an impressive list of technologies I have worked with and studied but a good web programmer or graphics programmer can lose me in seconds because Ive never worked or studied those areas so my knowledge is basic at best.
NinaWilliam wrote:
Should I quit programming because I don’t like it? Please I seek your advice.
If you've never liked it quit. If you used to like it but are going through a phase then don't. Only you can decide which is which the trick is in working out which is the right decision for you.
pseudonym67
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John, I have never written anything in this forum before and usually don't have time to bother with it. But maybe my user is old enough to give me some credability to pass an opinion (but I probably don't have any because I like writing VB). Anyhow, this thread has given me more laughs then the cartoons when I was a kid. There must be something about being an "outlaw programmer" that makes you sensitive but your rant was a cracker. Thanks.
I agree - sometimes everyone tries to be too damn polite
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Hi there, I need your help and advice in this… I have a programming analyst diploma with GPA 3.8. I work as a programmer for 4 years in a medical corporation. I am successful at my work and I get every task given to me done. Currently, I am holding 4 projects. The problem is: I am not interested in programming I just do my job because I have to. I don’t feel I love my job. I don’t like going to work. I find it very hard to move from .NET framework 1.1 to 2.0 to 3.5. Even if I start reading a programming book or article I don’t really understand every thing. I find my self interested more in software installing and troubleshooting, Computer maintenance, user support. Should I quit programming because I don’t like it? Please I seek your advice.
Consider asking what you would rather be doing than what you don't want to do. Consider books on self assesment that can help you find something that you would rather do. And be sure that you just don't work for an a-hole at a dumb company.
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Hi there, I need your help and advice in this… I have a programming analyst diploma with GPA 3.8. I work as a programmer for 4 years in a medical corporation. I am successful at my work and I get every task given to me done. Currently, I am holding 4 projects. The problem is: I am not interested in programming I just do my job because I have to. I don’t feel I love my job. I don’t like going to work. I find it very hard to move from .NET framework 1.1 to 2.0 to 3.5. Even if I start reading a programming book or article I don’t really understand every thing. I find my self interested more in software installing and troubleshooting, Computer maintenance, user support. Should I quit programming because I don’t like it? Please I seek your advice.
Yes, you should try -- there's nothing worse than grinding away at a job you don't like year after year. If you can afford the finnancial risk, then just go for it, preferably inside your existing company where you still have friendly managers that might be willing to bring you back in if you're wrong. My best career move was to take a "temporary" job in a group writing applications from my dream job as an entry level person in the company's OS group. After a few months, I didn't want to go back, which was a good thing because because it had silently become permanent. Maybe it was just the OS group manager's way of getting rid of me, but since I'd already done what his more senior people told him couldn't be done, maybe not. Doesn't matter anyway, I'm much happier and employed than if I'd stayed.
patbob
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Hi there, I need your help and advice in this… I have a programming analyst diploma with GPA 3.8. I work as a programmer for 4 years in a medical corporation. I am successful at my work and I get every task given to me done. Currently, I am holding 4 projects. The problem is: I am not interested in programming I just do my job because I have to. I don’t feel I love my job. I don’t like going to work. I find it very hard to move from .NET framework 1.1 to 2.0 to 3.5. Even if I start reading a programming book or article I don’t really understand every thing. I find my self interested more in software installing and troubleshooting, Computer maintenance, user support. Should I quit programming because I don’t like it? Please I seek your advice.
You may simply be experiencing "burn-out." Did you EVER love programming? What was it that attracted you to it in the first place?
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Roger Wright wrote:
Every job needs doing
Some jobs that I wish no one did: meter maid, telemarketer, greeter.
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Some jobs that I wish no one did:
Everyone has one of these lists. Fact is, if the need didn't exist, neither would the job.
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
meter maid,
This one keeps those assholes who think they own a particular piece of curb from homesteading on it. A necessary evil, in other words.
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
telemarketer
Some products don't sell themselves, but that doesn't mean they aren't worth buying. Granted, about 99% of telemarketed products are just someone's way of separating your cash from your wallet, but every now and then I get introduced to a product I actually need this way.
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
greeter
Who else is going to tell me after that long, long drive exactly where the restroom is? :laugh:
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Hi there, I need your help and advice in this… I have a programming analyst diploma with GPA 3.8. I work as a programmer for 4 years in a medical corporation. I am successful at my work and I get every task given to me done. Currently, I am holding 4 projects. The problem is: I am not interested in programming I just do my job because I have to. I don’t feel I love my job. I don’t like going to work. I find it very hard to move from .NET framework 1.1 to 2.0 to 3.5. Even if I start reading a programming book or article I don’t really understand every thing. I find my self interested more in software installing and troubleshooting, Computer maintenance, user support. Should I quit programming because I don’t like it? Please I seek your advice.
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Wow, I don't know what I did to piss you off. Your user ID is only a couple of months old, so you're either talkin' outa yer ass, or you're yet another mental midget that felt the need to create a new user ID for some half-brained reason. Further, you act as if I give a sh*t about what anyone thinks of what I post here - at least I'll never be seeking advice here about health problems, love life issues, or family interrelationship crap.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Ah, my point is made. Thanks, John :-D.
Software Zen:
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Hi there, I need your help and advice in this… I have a programming analyst diploma with GPA 3.8. I work as a programmer for 4 years in a medical corporation. I am successful at my work and I get every task given to me done. Currently, I am holding 4 projects. The problem is: I am not interested in programming I just do my job because I have to. I don’t feel I love my job. I don’t like going to work. I find it very hard to move from .NET framework 1.1 to 2.0 to 3.5. Even if I start reading a programming book or article I don’t really understand every thing. I find my self interested more in software installing and troubleshooting, Computer maintenance, user support. Should I quit programming because I don’t like it? Please I seek your advice.
And what are going to do when you come across something in your new career that you don't like? Quit again?. You definitely aren't great programmer material! To be even a good programmer, you gotta stay current and involved! Seek new technologies and always ask how you can become better. It sounds like you have lost all interest. When people ask questions like this, they usually are looking for validation. Here is your validation...QUIT! Get out of the way of someone who does care!
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Hi there, I need your help and advice in this… I have a programming analyst diploma with GPA 3.8. I work as a programmer for 4 years in a medical corporation. I am successful at my work and I get every task given to me done. Currently, I am holding 4 projects. The problem is: I am not interested in programming I just do my job because I have to. I don’t feel I love my job. I don’t like going to work. I find it very hard to move from .NET framework 1.1 to 2.0 to 3.5. Even if I start reading a programming book or article I don’t really understand every thing. I find my self interested more in software installing and troubleshooting, Computer maintenance, user support. Should I quit programming because I don’t like it? Please I seek your advice.
I also have the same dillema. I'm almost 11 years in the industry, and I feel it's time to move on to something else. I'm not talking about software installation or troubleshooting, but rather try making money out of blogging. This discussion is very inspiring! Thanks, Yohay
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Hi there, I need your help and advice in this… I have a programming analyst diploma with GPA 3.8. I work as a programmer for 4 years in a medical corporation. I am successful at my work and I get every task given to me done. Currently, I am holding 4 projects. The problem is: I am not interested in programming I just do my job because I have to. I don’t feel I love my job. I don’t like going to work. I find it very hard to move from .NET framework 1.1 to 2.0 to 3.5. Even if I start reading a programming book or article I don’t really understand every thing. I find my self interested more in software installing and troubleshooting, Computer maintenance, user support. Should I quit programming because I don’t like it? Please I seek your advice.
Like what you do to do what you like... any career have it own problems and hardness if you just jump over and you change your career for each time you face trouble in your current job you will never built a career.. you will just switch from career to other, Please pause don't rush yourself think well try to like what you do for a while make some analysis to find where the problem and try to solve give it chance before you try to shift.. Ehab Anshad
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Hi there, I need your help and advice in this… I have a programming analyst diploma with GPA 3.8. I work as a programmer for 4 years in a medical corporation. I am successful at my work and I get every task given to me done. Currently, I am holding 4 projects. The problem is: I am not interested in programming I just do my job because I have to. I don’t feel I love my job. I don’t like going to work. I find it very hard to move from .NET framework 1.1 to 2.0 to 3.5. Even if I start reading a programming book or article I don’t really understand every thing. I find my self interested more in software installing and troubleshooting, Computer maintenance, user support. Should I quit programming because I don’t like it? Please I seek your advice.
Yeah Give IT Support a go. That way you'll get to do reinstalls, test hardware and work with tech that's been around for a year or more rather than writing the new stuff.
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There are some who think programming is the best job in the world and tend to look down upon those in other professions. Do not listen to them. If you think you'll enjoy something else, give it a shot. But a word of caution here: it sounds like you've been at the same place for all your working life, and sometimes that is what gets you bogged down. Try a change of jobs; if that doesn't work, go for troubleshooting/support. Good luck! :) :thumbsup:
Cheers, Vıkram.
Carpe Diem.
To add to this line of thinking, early on in one's career, a programmer moves between (programming) jobs every 2 years. This allows him to get a quicker increase in his salary, increase his knowlege of software development, and give him more exposure to different development environments and domains. So, switch jobs to another company where your programming talents can develop. Also, after 4 years with the same company, you are probably burned out doing the same thing. Get your resume out there.