I thing my case it's a little too extreme. I've been working as a developer for 10+ years, and I lost the spark at the very beggining. I recovered my love for coding in late 2019.
I remember, before finishing my studies, to do small jobs as a web developer (terrible websites TBH, you know, Frontpage vs Dreamweaver times, static sites, flash animations...). I was happy, because I was doing something that I enjoyed so much, that involved coding and design.
I ended my studies, and few months later, I got a call from a company. My first interview, and I'll never forget what the interviewer said to me:
"Do you know C ?"
"Yes"
"Do you know Java?"
"Yes"
"Well, we want you to work in something that has nothing to do with anything you've ever studied".
I was entering in the Cobol and PacBase Dungeon. And I've stayed there since.
You can think that, wow, developing and mantaining Cobol applications, I must earn a lot of money, or be considered someone special. The truth is that, here in Spain, we are too many, so we are treated like any other developer, but worse (in my opinion).
Why worse? I have to deal everyday with an old, really old technology that I had to learn by myself reading old manuals that surely were older than me at that time. Everything is too tedious, from testing and debugging code to manage DB2, implementing the new software...
Why did it take so long to regain my interest in programming?
When I got home, the last thing I wanted was to code, but everything changed one day. Needing to get out of the routine, improve my expectations for the future and catch up, taking advantage of the fact that I had to get to work an hour early to be able to park my car, I decided to take advantage of that time to carry out an online web development bootcamp.
I'm still in the same company, doing the same job, but I've noticed the spark again, the same I felt for the first time as a child programming a Q&A basic game with a Commodore 64.
I've started to follow developers on Instagram, I have signed up for more courses, on different topics such as ethical hacking or Linux management, and I have discovered wonderful websites like this, full of information. Now I can say that coding is my main interest in life, just behind family of course!
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I thing my case it's a little too extreme. I've been working as a developer for 10+ years, and I lost the spark at the very beggining. I recovered my love for coding in late 2019.
I remember, before finishing my studies, to do small jobs as a web developer (terrible websites TBH, you know, Frontpage vs Dreamweaver times, static sites, flash animations...). I was happy, because I was doing something that I enjoyed so much, that involved coding and design.
I ended my studies, and few months later, I got a call from a company. My first interview, and I'll never forget what the interviewer said to me:
I was entering in the Cobol and PacBase Dungeon. And I've stayed there since.
You can think that, wow, developing and mantaining Cobol applications, I must earn a lot of money, or be considered someone special. The truth is that, here in Spain, we are too many, so we are treated like any other developer, but worse (in my opinion).
Why worse? I have to deal everyday with an old, really old technology that I had to learn by myself reading old manuals that surely were older than me at that time. Everything is too tedious, from testing and debugging code to manage DB2, implementing the new software...
Why did it take so long to regain my interest in programming?
When I got home, the last thing I wanted was to code, but everything changed one day. Needing to get out of the routine, improve my expectations for the future and catch up, taking advantage of the fact that I had to get to work an hour early to be able to park my car, I decided to take advantage of that time to carry out an online web development bootcamp.
I'm still in the same company, doing the same job, but I've noticed the spark again, the same I felt for the first time as a child programming a Q&A basic game with a Commodore 64.
I've started to follow developers on Instagram, I have signed up for more courses, on different topics such as ethical hacking or Linux management, and I have discovered wonderful websites like this, full of information. Now I can say that coding is my main interest in life, just behind family of course!