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Discussion on: Longtime devs: Have you rekindled your love of coding after losing the spark at any point in your career?

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Sarah

TLDR; Doing the same thing day in day out can be mundane in any field - I think its challenges that engages our interest.

For me its always been about improving my craft and learning something new. This doesn't necessarily mean a new stack or codebase but new challenges in your project.

I like to know the ins and outs of a codebase what holds it together down to the framework and that usually doesn't come over night.

I started as a Java developer and about 4 years in when I did start to lose some of my Java enthusiasm I looked into becoming full stack and picked up Angular - this kept my interest in coding and consequently helped me really hone into my craft in Java 2 years later.