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Discussion on: Is it common for developer to loose passion to learn new things ?

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JoelBonetR 🥇 • Edited

Programming is not just about programming. If it was there wasn't sense on our profession.
Programming is about making other things easier automating tasks and building tools that help other people on any professional field.
It's also transversal; you need to know a bit about science because IT is a science, you'll need a bit of design and UX if you plan to be in front-end, you could also learn about marketing, psychology, other engineering basis, mathematics, physics...
And all of that will help you to code better, thinking out of the box and being inspired to do different things.
When you are in that point it doesn't matter if this "tool" you imagined already exists; build your own with your own flavor.

I'm a senior developer who coded for 10 years (near 11) professionally and I'm myself studying Design and digital creation (college grade) because... why not? I'm a full logic person that is learning about abstract concepts such colors, shapes, what those things combined can produce (sensations, feelings) on people and so and I'm enjoying it a lot and I'm able to understand why the companies build its branding that way and what can be done better and what is an amazing job.

My father once said to me: "Study whatever you want, if you really want to be on IT remember that such me (he's a very good electro-mechanic) you'll need to learn along all your life, I know you like to learn new things so keep it on!"
Then he took extra hours at job to pay me a basic web course back those days when I was 14 and we used transitional HTML, CSS 2 and very basic javascript.

This was my first experience, then I took the studies I've in my bio and now here I am, paying myself more studies instead on buying a new bike or... whatever, but you know, I'm near 30 and I'll keep the new bike thing for the 40's crisis 😆

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Nitesh Sawant

Thank you for sharing your experience . Its really helpful. Learning other things other than programming languages and frameworks is a really good advice.

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JoelBonetR 🥇

Thanks you too for reading :)