Ask HN: How to come back as a dev?
I was developer for some years (mostly on backend). Then I moved to a job in a big corp which is more on product / project management but... I'm clearly not happy with the job (and the company is not happy with my work). After some years trying to be better in my job, I have really hard time to go at work everyday. (Sorry for the lack of precision, trying to stay anonymous). I'm around 35 (but started late to work). I'm thinking to go back to the dev side but I feel totally lost on how to move.
I tested some CS/new dev language/other related skill through MOOCs/teaching website, but it's: too easy and I just feel bored after an hour (a loop / if statement is the same no matter the language) or a bit too complex and I lack the energy to make progress after a whole day of work.
I tested to work on personal project but I had a similar result: small stuff are easy but useless/boring (oh another todolist app), complex stuff are way too bigger for a wannabe-comeback-dev. And on the top of it you add the time lost to try to install/configure things correctly (i'm really not the devops/hack another tool in 5 minutes kind).
Any advice?