Beginning to lose interest to code for fun
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I am now 25 Ive graduated from university in informatics engineering, Now i am coding and getting paid for that over a year and a half. But now I don't spend endless hours coding games and other stuff just because i like it, and it is not because i don't have time is because I lost interest. I wonder if that is what real life does to you.
Yes, though it took me until 40ish.
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I am now 25 Ive graduated from university in informatics engineering, Now i am coding and getting paid for that over a year and a half. But now I don't spend endless hours coding games and other stuff just because i like it, and it is not because i don't have time is because I lost interest. I wonder if that is what real life does to you.
I haven't done any "fun" coding for a while, but that's changing as I'm finding ideas for stuff to work on that strikes my interest or that meets needs that I have. Finding those kind of things brings the interest back.
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I am now 25 Ive graduated from university in informatics engineering, Now i am coding and getting paid for that over a year and a half. But now I don't spend endless hours coding games and other stuff just because i like it, and it is not because i don't have time is because I lost interest. I wonder if that is what real life does to you.
I still code for fun. I'm currently working on something with Sacha - it's pretty cool.
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I am now 25 Ive graduated from university in informatics engineering, Now i am coding and getting paid for that over a year and a half. But now I don't spend endless hours coding games and other stuff just because i like it, and it is not because i don't have time is because I lost interest. I wonder if that is what real life does to you.
Never - well, there's certain projects that can be really frustrating, but that's more because of the processes (people and machine) that are involved and the "can't this be done better?" questions. However, I never lose interest. There's always amazing and fun stuff to work on. For example, I'd really like to resurrect Apple's HyperCard[^] concept, I'm in the midst of writing an article on the concept of "relationship oriented programming" (not people, but entities), and this interesting topic, Anchor Modeling[^] Marc
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I am now 25 Ive graduated from university in informatics engineering, Now i am coding and getting paid for that over a year and a half. But now I don't spend endless hours coding games and other stuff just because i like it, and it is not because i don't have time is because I lost interest. I wonder if that is what real life does to you.
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I am now 25 Ive graduated from university in informatics engineering, Now i am coding and getting paid for that over a year and a half. But now I don't spend endless hours coding games and other stuff just because i like it, and it is not because i don't have time is because I lost interest. I wonder if that is what real life does to you.
I fun for code! :rolleyes: Seriously, depends on the mood. Most of the times I just don't feel like doing anything(code related). Like, I'm sick and tired of all this stuff. But then again, sometimes I even lose nights to coding for fun. Rarely, but it happens.
All the best, Dan
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I am now 25 Ive graduated from university in informatics engineering, Now i am coding and getting paid for that over a year and a half. But now I don't spend endless hours coding games and other stuff just because i like it, and it is not because i don't have time is because I lost interest. I wonder if that is what real life does to you.
The last time I did any coding outside of education or employment was on a Commodore 64. I wrote quite a few little programs on it, remember one about displaying different flags of the world. Can't remember what the last thing I wrote was, but I do remember that when it was finished I called my mum in to have a look. She sat down, touched the computer and it turned off, never to come back on again.
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I am now 25 Ive graduated from university in informatics engineering, Now i am coding and getting paid for that over a year and a half. But now I don't spend endless hours coding games and other stuff just because i like it, and it is not because i don't have time is because I lost interest. I wonder if that is what real life does to you.
welcome to real life
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Yes, though it took me until 40ish.
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I am now 25 Ive graduated from university in informatics engineering, Now i am coding and getting paid for that over a year and a half. But now I don't spend endless hours coding games and other stuff just because i like it, and it is not because i don't have time is because I lost interest. I wonder if that is what real life does to you.
I still code for fun after more than 15 years in the industry. However, it's never been "endless hours", which is maybe the reason why I haven't lost interest.
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I am now 25 Ive graduated from university in informatics engineering, Now i am coding and getting paid for that over a year and a half. But now I don't spend endless hours coding games and other stuff just because i like it, and it is not because i don't have time is because I lost interest. I wonder if that is what real life does to you.
GL_Terminator wrote:
I wonder if that is what real life does to you.
It comes and goes. After I write something in my spare time I usually need a month or 2 off from that before I can tackle another. I think as you get older you just start to notice the trade offs more. So for example if I spend 200 hours writing some mobile app/game. My rewards for this are nerd pride and maybe a few hundred bucks in sales. Are pride and a few hundred bucks worth 200 hours of work? How much fun or new experiences could I have had instead with my 200 hours?
Kill some time, play my game Hop Cheops[^]
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I am now 25 Ive graduated from university in informatics engineering, Now i am coding and getting paid for that over a year and a half. But now I don't spend endless hours coding games and other stuff just because i like it, and it is not because i don't have time is because I lost interest. I wonder if that is what real life does to you.
As in my 'bio': When I was a chemist I coded for fun. Now I do for money what I used to do for pleasure - just like a hooker. Actually, I've been given a lot of duties to take/process/otherwise-abuse photos, so much so that, of late, I've actually been looking forward to coding. Hope springs eternal . . . If not, try a single malt with a straw.
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I am now 25 Ive graduated from university in informatics engineering, Now i am coding and getting paid for that over a year and a half. But now I don't spend endless hours coding games and other stuff just because i like it, and it is not because i don't have time is because I lost interest. I wonder if that is what real life does to you.
I have the same problem, after using a computer in the day for work purposes I don't want to do it again after work, although I do use computer based timewasters (forums and games). I have various coding projects and some writing (including some nascent CP articles) and I never have the motivation to actually do that any more.
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GL_Terminator wrote:
I wonder if that is what real life does to you.
Yes.
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I concur! Having children does not help either! :)
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I concur! Having children does not help either! :)
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
LOL!!!!
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I concur! Having children does not help either! :)
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
That's definitely true!
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I am now 25 Ive graduated from university in informatics engineering, Now i am coding and getting paid for that over a year and a half. But now I don't spend endless hours coding games and other stuff just because i like it, and it is not because i don't have time is because I lost interest. I wonder if that is what real life does to you.
I still do programming for fun and there is a very simple reason: I cannot develop the things I would like to in my job. They just don't pay me for all my interests. Of course I have chosen a job which challenges me, I really like it. And I choose this job because wanted to create 3d worlds and make them visible. But here I have to accept compromises with my colleagues, I cannot find out how to do things better, I just have to make them run. I am developing a different way of programming - at home. This is very existing and keeps me busy for 10 years now. It's fun. And it's hard to find time for that. I also have a website about programming containing a wiki with tutorials and a bulletin board for a small community. So I stay in contact with younger developers who are inspiring me. They code for fun which also spreads to me. I am developing a content mangement system for that in C++ and also a search engine crawling my cms and also the web for me. That's quite exiting. I started to develop software at 1986. I once started to write a game. A graphical adventure like Maniac Manson. The music plays, the character moves accross several rooms. We were close to create a graphic adventure. That was the moment it becomes boring. It was no challenge anymore. Do you still have a challenge?
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I have a project ive been meaning to write for about 5 years now but can never find the motivation after coding all day occasionally i'll find myself doing paperwork/testing/admin stuff in the office for a stint and will do a bit of it to handle the coding withdrawl, other times i might do some if im between contracts and, again, havent coded for a while inevitably it never quite gets finished and then random events such as exploding hard drives cause me to start again it'll get done one day, maybe when i retire lol
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Random events like exploding hard drives are a productivity killer! We have Raid 10, and a Norton ghost to a separate disk of the main OS disk daily. At home I can't be bothered with all that so just use http://www.lushbackup.com , works just as good, except uploading my Norton images :)
