Of course if you are retired, please weigh in with your coding status.
Will you write code after you retire? How will your relationship with our craft change?
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Who can afford to retire?
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For real though.
Precisely. Beat me to it 🤣
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Retire? I will be writing code for as long as I am of sound mind. If I am in a retirement village, undoubtedly I will still be working on side-projects and hacking on numerous things. A retirement home for programmers would be a wonderful thing actually.
Tbh I'm counting down the days until I'm financially stable enough to never code again 🤣 It's a very comfortable job, but I view it as just that - a job.
I'm also surprised that I'm one of the first people to say no to that first question in the discussion 🤔
That’s interesting that you view it as a job but yet you find time to write articles about your craft. I’m not questioning you, I just find it curious. Would you mind sharing more about this distinction?
Is it perhaps that you like writing as well?
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Update: I just read in your bio that you’re an ex-journalist. That’s solved that mystery! :)
Valid question! Writing articles is part of my current job, so that's why I've started writing more the past four months or so 😁 In my previous company I was never given the time.
Even as a journalist though I never wrote articles that I wasn't compensated for. That's always been a clear distinction in my mind - but the line certainly gets blurred more often as a dev (especially with community events - like organizing meetups or speaking at conferences).
Thank you for the response. That’s very cool. We have such talented, multi-faceted people here. :) I always hear about people’s careers. And the distinction between someone’s career vs. their passion vs. their calling vs. their hobby is always very interesting.
I think the beautiful part about life is that we have time to grow and change.
Personally, I might program after retirement but my main goal is to get a dog! 🐶
As in, that will be soon??
Huh, really? Here in the US devs are always telling you how much they love their work. Some of it's BS, some of it's genuine 🤷♀️ Personally I'm more concerned with dedication than passion.
I really gotta remember this distinction since I usually feel less passionate than "I'm gonna hack in my free-time" but more passionate than "this is just a job".
Ha, yeah it is a balance between the two.
Yeah that surprised me too! While I generally enjoy coding, I don't think I want to continue coding when I retire. I've already spent enough hours in front of screens for a lifetime.
I certainly hope too!
Coding is a great way to keep the brain active, something that's very important when aging. It's more interesting than doing cross word and sudoku puzzles. (IMHO)
I'd like to give back, use my powers for good.
I see myself working with an open source project, or a non-profit that could use an app.
Basically tinkering away without the deadlines and pressure.
Nah, I'm going off the grid :D
100 percent I will.
I see myself going two different ways.
Learn something I would not of done in my professional career. most likely a older technology at the time that has always interested me.
Stop chasing the new and best practices. I have already been doing this for 18 years. When I retire, this is the biggest source of burn out to some degree, as well as excitement. It may be nice to pick a stack I am happy with and just focus on creation. Specifically honing some design skills I am weak in.
I have always wanted to make a interactive children’s book for my kids. I think at this point in time, if I didn’t do it already, it would be for my grandkids. Art is what keeps me from doing it today.
My granddaughter LOVES Roblox, which is interactive gaming versus an interactive book. She's an only child, so she ends up at G&G house pretty often. She likes me to play as a separate character, someone who she can use to pick up when she wants to "take the wheel" and cart me around. The games are ok, about right for her age (7), but I am not sure what to make of them as they promote interacting with others (pick up/be picked up, invited to a party, etc.), but, thankfully, my granddaughter has been warned about "getting scammed" so she is happy when she has someone else, like me and grandma, to interact with. I realize that Roblox has a programming side to it that can be learned, along with a designer studio. If you spend a lot of time you could possibly make a game that could be monetized, but I think it would be neat just to create a game that would help children learn some kind of life skill. And Quinn would be all over it, she already wants to create Cat Mania and is a pretty good at drawing cat cartoons. I just don't know if I want to immerse myself in learning the platform because time becomes way more precious as you get older.
I don't think I will. It's hard to say how the software landscape will look in 30-40 years. But I'll probably pick some nice advanced topics. Like a quantum native programming language or a global consistent tritemporal database.
Probably not..
My goals are to enjoy life once I retire, travel, visit, rescue puppers, whatever I feel like..
But, if I do code, it will be a non-profit project.. making the world better, somehow.
But my first priority is to enjoy not hustling... and we'll go from there. :P
It's great to see how many people do enjoy coding in this thread they want to continue!
Coding is not a job for me anymore. Even when it was, it was a very minor part. I run a property business and write code for the business and for personal reasons.
If I ever retire, I doubt I'll be without solutions to problems that I can solve with code. So no, I can't imagine retiring from code.
If I retire, which is by no means a given, I will probably not code.
Partly because when I have time off nowadays I rarely code, and partly because by 2177 we'll all be saying, "Alexa, make me an app to remote-control grain production in Belgium" anyway.