Ask HN: Developer burnout – how to rediscover the passion, or new career?

Re:Ask HN: Developer burnout – how to rediscover the passion... by mooreds on Saturday June 09, 2018 @08:31PM (#17275775)

If I were to enter a complicated transaction without consulting a lawyer (raising funding for example) people would say I was crazy.

Yet somehow we think we should be able to work out personal issues (burnout, marriage issues, depression, etc) by ourselves. It's bizarre.

If you can afford help, get it. If you can't, often you can get a discount (sliding scale) or work something out.

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Re:Ask HN: Developer burnout – how to rediscover the passion... by eb0la on Sunday June 10, 2018 @12:14PM (#17278772)

It is not bizzare: we are used to do stuff other people cannot think to do...

... Like if it was a superpower.

Superheroes doesn't need advice. At least in the comics I read as a kid.

So this superhero syndrome, hurts more than having no superpower at all.

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Re:Ask HN: Developer burnout – how to rediscover the passion... by mooreds on Monday June 11, 2018 @07:45AM (#17283453)

Fair enough. I wrote a blog post once about the arrogance of software developers[0]. So I get your point that sometimes because we can do one kind of hard thing, we think we can do most any type of hard thing. But we're wrong.

0. http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/134

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Re:Ask HN: Developer burnout – how to rediscover the passion... by eeZah7Ux on Sunday June 10, 2018 @06:27PM (#17280518)

> stuff other people cannot think to do

What are you talking about?

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Re:Ask HN: Developer burnout – how to rediscover the passion... by eb0la on Monday June 11, 2018 @03:04AM (#17282370)

A lot if people has trouble with computers, technology, etc.

If you're able to understand or at least start troubleshooting computer relates stuff, you look like you hace a superpower to them.

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