Quitting your dream job twice

Re:Quitting your dream job twice by wayoutthere on Friday September 24, 2021 @10:17AM (#28642713)

It’s close enough to my day job that I don’t really do much coding anymore. I burned out pretty hard on it a decade ago so it just feels like work. I scratch that itch with other things now (music, competition shooting, community activism). There are plenty other ways to exercise an analytical mind.

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Re:Quitting your dream job twice by merrywhether on Friday September 24, 2021 @10:51AM (#28643235)

Thanks for the reply, and what you say makes sense and is a familiar tale. Weirdly a lot of people describe their coding past with a burnout, reassessment, and subsequent pullback, almost like a drug relationship.

Kudos on the community activism; talk about building something of meaning.

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Re:Quitting your dream job twice by wayoutthere on Friday September 24, 2021 @12:29PM (#28644635)

I really do think grinding code is a young person’s game. It takes the kind of mental stamina you can only sustain for so long before life gets in the way.

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