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Sounds like your suffering from burnt out or at least bad management and crap projects or all of the above. I've had jobs where over time any interest I've had in programming has literally been kicked out of me and I've gone for years without writing a single line of code just because I was interested in it. My advice would be to take a break or change jobs and see if the interest comes back if it doesn;t then you can either move on or join the ranks of programmers who only do it for a living with little or no interest in the subject itself other than what serves to get the next project done. pseudonym67 My Articles[^] "They say there are strangers who threaten us, In our immigrants and infidels. They say there is strangeness too dangerous In our theaters and bookstore shelves. That those who know what's best for us Must rise and save us from ourselves." Rush
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Personally, I would find something else that interests me and learn about, and just go with the flow. For example, if you were interested in carpentry or customizing cars, you could spend your spare time on that rather than coding, and maybe it will open new doors as you got more involved. You may find that learning new things may be enough change to keep work interesting. You might hit on a new passion to take the place of coding, and head down a whole new career. Just keep your options open and roll with it. I've currently renewed my interest in becoming a more proficient coder, and spend a good bit of time reading and coding at home lately. However, I also am learning alot about gardening since a bought my house, and will build my own deck, something else new. Also, I have plans to begin writing regularly, something I've always wanted to do, but never made the time for. I have a good-paying, comfortable job, but still I hope at some point in the next 5 years to be able to make a huge change in how I earn a living, whether it's consulting on my own, landscaping, writing, or whatever. I know I won't be happy doing the same thing until I retire, so I keep fishing around for new things and keeping an eye out for an opportunity for change. Good Luck finding your passion. On the other hand, standing at the wheel of your yacht, doesn't sound too bad. ;) BW
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I think I would find plain coding all day mind numbing. I know what you are getting at. I found for me that its the dull projects that are the killer. When you find a good project it always gets me back into the swing. I consider myself a windows dev as I was employed as one in my current place 2 years ago. For the past 9 months, I've almost entirely done Linux and Solaris work, which I've found very enjoyable. I find working on purely server side problems for a while has been quite a breath of fresh air from GUI work, though I expect to be back doing it in a few months. I've also found that reading and learning entirely new stuff outside of software has kept my brain ticking over in the other ways it needs to be. You need a heathly diet for you brain as well. Some of the things I've been reading around on lately are the war at sea during WW2, and a lot of other WW2 history, refreshing myself on mathmatics (I did Physics at Uni), complexity theory and emergent behaviour, and biology/biochemistry/genes. The cool thing is, I've found things in all of there that relate back to what I do in my day job, and I've even found myslef tinkering with ideas again in the evenings.
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I've been going through the same things at work as well. Some of my first programming job was an extension of the work that I had done in tech support, and I felt a real connection with the project helping out the users. It was great to read through all the positive emails and to feel like I was making a positive impact to millions of people. Then our team got new management and a site redesign brought in loads of unhappy emails and rants as only dedicated computer professionals can deliver. Mangement convieniently started to ignore the feedback and things went downhill from there. I've had a few jobs since then, but they have all been the same basic business web appication work. There are still things I love about coding, volunteering to help Chris out with the SQL performance was great. I've been writing an app to visualize and help build my intuition for understanding basic quantum mechanical theory. Working on things like this, and the hope that I could one day make a living at it are what is keeping me going at work. For me, working on other programming projects has been my hobby. I don't know many gruntled people that don't have at least a few things going on in their lives that they get excited about. Go try a bunch of stuff and see what sticks. :cool:
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