Staring down burnout - this time a bit removed
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I burnt out on bizdev years ago. Seemed like we were solving the same problems ad nauseum. "build me a storefront" simply evolved into "build me a horizontal application framework". Over and over until I beyond mastered it, or at least to the degree that I was going to in this life. So I left the field for years. I packed fish. I got scouted over here at codeproject for embedded stuff so they pulled me back in. But now I'm over on a discord server helping a lot of jr devs. I enjoy doing it but it's the same stuff that I burnt out on, only newer. And all these "upstart" languages like Python *shakes cane* seem to be geared for solving these problems almost at the expense of other things. Trying to stay positive about this stuff, but also want to shake these kids and get them to branch out. /crotchety
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I burnt out on bizdev years ago. Seemed like we were solving the same problems ad nauseum. "build me a storefront" simply evolved into "build me a horizontal application framework". Over and over until I beyond mastered it, or at least to the degree that I was going to in this life. So I left the field for years. I packed fish. I got scouted over here at codeproject for embedded stuff so they pulled me back in. But now I'm over on a discord server helping a lot of jr devs. I enjoy doing it but it's the same stuff that I burnt out on, only newer. And all these "upstart" languages like Python *shakes cane* seem to be geared for solving these problems almost at the expense of other things. Trying to stay positive about this stuff, but also want to shake these kids and get them to branch out. /crotchety
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
I'm currently in a role where I mostly support legacy apps (C# and SQL), try to pass on knowledge and let the "young kids" write new apps in Flutter - which I've been though an introductory course on, so can read it, though I've never written anything but the tutorial app. Some of the issues are interesting (obscure bugs due to rare edge cases), but most of it is repeat problems where the user has done something wrong and needs it reversing. At my age, I've no intention of taking on anything new and will probably stop if the interesting stuff becomes too infrequent or, of course, if I win the lottery! :)
