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John Hotterbeekx

I'm just glad you found your way. Does that mean you have figured a way to get back positive energy from programming? If so, how did you manage to do it?

I just read an interesting chapter about this yesterday. The book "Soft skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual" by John Sonmez talks about hitting a wall, which seems a lot like you did. He also talks about this being the point that most people give up an look else, which seems pretty normal behavior when you have burned out. What he suggests though is pushing through, because hitting this wall is almost inevitable and the other side of it will return you positive flow. Although I don't have any experience with the concept of pushing through the wall when burned out, I do find it interesting.