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Am I too young to burn out? [closed]
I feel like I have burned out, even though I am only out of college for 5 years.
For the first 3 years of my career, things were going awesome. I was never anything special in school, but I felt ...
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How do you create interest in your projects? [duplicate]
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Ideas to get you programming mojo back?
Its almost 10 years for me working in Java based applications (mainly on Web). Sometimes I feel really bored of the regular ...
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Personal project burnout and how to get out of it [duplicate]
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Burned out on programming and given up?
I've been working hard on a personal 2D game engine project in C++ since about 11 months now. Really hard...
I think that I was ...
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How do you stop yourself from bringing work home? [closed]
Programming is a highly cerebral job, and one of the biggest problems I have is bringing my work home with me. It's so easy to do: whenever I get the chance to think, my mind naturally wanders to ...
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Does a high correlation between burning out and programming exist? [closed]
Yesterday I asked a question about burning out. It did receive a high number of comments and answers and left me thinking if programmers are more prone to burning out than other professions. I'd be ...
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I no longer want to be a developer [closed]
I think like many other people here, I work on a meaningless pursuit: I develop high performance algorithmic trading software for an investment company.
Year over the year, I no longer care about ...
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How to overcome the “being fed up” on a project
I've been working on this contracted project for over a year now and I'm the only developer (as a contractor delivering the product) on a mis-planned project with unrealistic deadlines. I've pointed ...
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Is going into management a bad way to deal with development burnout?
I'm burnt out on programming. There was recently a job opening in my department for a manager (IT mgr position). The department head encouraged me to apply and thinks I would be a good fit...but I'm ...
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Burnout… Project Issues… Now They're Witholding My Salary… What Should I Do Next? [closed]
I've been working at a startup for 9 months. Except for the first 3 months, I've been miserable.
It started when I joined the organization. I didn't join as a fresher. My first task was to create a ...
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What to do when blocked [closed]
I began to code 3 different projects, and it is alright, I have done it for 5 months, some php, some c, some matlab, but for some reason I got stuck...
Usually when I pass through this I leave for a ...
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How to explain my 5 burnt-out years off to a new employer?
Five years ago, I lost my ability to concentrate long-term, and therefore ability to code with professional efficiency.
I know why it happened, I understood how it happened, and on top of being able ...
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What to do when coding begins to feel boring, like it is all just more of the same? [closed]
I started programming at the age of 6 on a Commodore 64. Now I'm 28, and I have to complete 4 courses from a first degree in Computer Science.
I'm starting to get bored with writing code after all ...
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How do you stop yourself from programming? [closed]
Lately I've started earning enough off my software to not have to do
consulting to support myself. So I work full time designing and
writing my own software products.
The problem is that there are ...
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What if a team member start listing aggressive deadlines and management is happy and programmers know they will work overtime?
A team member start listing fairly aggressive deadlines (for the project everybody is working on) -- something that is to be done well can take 4 to 5 days, and he lists it as 2 to 3 days.
The ...
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Can unlimited number of vacation means the same as 0 vacation time in practice? [closed]
Programmers sometimes get a little burned out and a little vacation can help. It used to be many hi-tech companies give 10 vacation days and 10 sick days per year. But in recent years, I have seen ...
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How long do programmers generally stay in industry? [closed]
One thing that I've heard a lot over the years is that those working in the IT world generally don't make life time careers out of it, but tend to "burn out" and start a new career doing something ...
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How do you know when you are tired of programming in your life? [closed]
Have you ever felt that you have had enough of programming and you want to do something else in your life which hopefully doesn't include staying in front of the computer all day?
Also, while ...
