Becoming a programmer can be a daunting task. After reading Your First Year in Code, you might wonder what awaits you long term. My book, What is P...
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Just wanted to say how much I have appreciated your posts to dev.to. Fantastic content, perspective, and honesty. Thank you for sharing so much in this community. It’s folks like you that keep me coming back.
Wonderful article. Long term (nearly 20 years professional) programmer here, I've cycled the company types, academia, languages/platforms and faced many of the same problems. I worry about ageism (I'm 41 now) but know that I'm experienced enough to be more effective for the most part than juniors in a lot of cases. As I advance in years, I'm taking more joy in mentoring though.
It's so important to have non-programming related activities as you identified. I've produced electronic music, studied and taught meditation and I write poetry and prose, to name but a few. I cook, exercise, spend time in nature and quite enjoy photography too. Travel also helps - a new location lends itself to fresh perspectives.
I find it hard to imagine still programming professionally when I'm 60. But I don't know what else I'll do (maybe become a therapist and help burnt out programmers!).
I am totally in awe of Your ingenious article, congrats. I am not there yet, I am pushing 20 years of coding and have started to notice changes. One of the most prominent one is that I'm no longer living for the company, but living off the company. I have also developed preferences like you mentioned, and prefer some older tools over the new ones. I also try to avoid getting dragged into discussions about which language or tool is better because it's pointless.
I have to admit that I am currently struggling with burnout but hopefully I'll get myself together.
My first post here was about my background and the recent burnout. I've recently discovered a new interest of mine, which is psychology, and I tend to pursue that path and see where it takes me. I can't do dev, dev and only dev all the time anymore.
Congrats on the article,
DF
Fab post 🤙