It's starting to look like majoring in computer science isn't the road to the promised land of money and job security after all
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Mycroft Holmes wrote:
I have not touched VS in a number of years.
I practically burned out when I was coding day in (for work) and day out (the rest of my free time - evenings and weekends - on my personal pet projects). Nowadays it's very rare I fire up VS to work on my own pet projects - I have to have something very specific in mind to do it, and the end product has to be something relatively small in scale. I keep telling myself once I retire, I'll probably start using VS for my pet projects again - I still have the belief it would be fun; I just don't want to do it again in parallel with work - that's just too much. I honestly don't know what I'd be doing with myself if work was no longer a thing, and couldn't bring myself to code. I truly hope I won't feel the same way you do. No offense.
I felt the same - a goody I can do any pet projects I want with no pressure from management or users - except there are no pet project I feel motivated to do. You will be astonished how easy it is to fill your time when it is just you and the wife/partner to satisfy.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I felt the same - a goody I can do any pet projects I want with no pressure from management or users - except there are no pet project I feel motivated to do. You will be astonished how easy it is to fill your time when it is just you and the wife/partner to satisfy.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
except there are no pet project I feel motivated to do
That's not a problem, I still have a ton of ideas, and feel motivated enough to do them - just not when I've already worked a full day. And I need my weekends.
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
You will be astonished how easy it is to fill your time
I keep seeing that, people retiring and now saying they're more busy than they've been in years... TBH there are times where I don't quite know what to do with myself on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon...that's when I most often feel like I could put in a few hours on a side-project, but I know I'm gonna want a bigger block of time sooner rather than later. So any project I already had underway stagnates... The only time (in the last couple of years) where I've actually invested significant chunks of time coding for my own projects is during Christmas holidays. I usually take more time off then than during the summer months, so that's primarily when I allocate big chunks of time coding.
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It's sad when parents and school counselors push kids into computer work when the kids have no interest or aptitude for it. And people shouldn't talk about salaries for non-supervisory people- hourly is what matters.