For me, either the project must be good, or technology stack must be good. (Or both together) There must be some challenge! And of course the team must be fine.
I worked for courier company on their BE for logistics. It was in old ugly PHP. But the problems we were solving, it was fun. The team knew the code base is ugly and we were renovating it. Implementing best practices, improving test coverage. And I liked it, even the tech stack wasn't the most cool one in those days.
Now I work for IAM company. Only technology, we are using and I knew it before, is Redis. All others were new to me. But the business case is not really catching me. However, there are still some technical challenges. And that is what keeps me in the project.
And yes, there are some days when it is less fun, but the same happening for your pet projects.
For me, either the project must be good, or technology stack must be good. (Or both together) There must be some challenge! And of course the team must be fine.
I worked for courier company on their BE for logistics. It was in old ugly PHP. But the problems we were solving, it was fun. The team knew the code base is ugly and we were renovating it. Implementing best practices, improving test coverage. And I liked it, even the tech stack wasn't the most cool one in those days.
Now I work for IAM company. Only technology, we are using and I knew it before, is Redis. All others were new to me. But the business case is not really catching me. However, there are still some technical challenges. And that is what keeps me in the project.
And yes, there are some days when it is less fun, but the same happening for your pet projects.
From personal experience, renovation and refactoring the code sometimes is harder than re-writing it all from ground zero 😄😄 Thanks for the input 🙏❤