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Nope. The spark is gone. Now it's just monotony.

I thoroughly enjoyed it in my 20s. I was fascinated by code and prolific. Now I struggle to just motivate myself to get through a workday.

I don't know why, precisely. Maybe I'm just bored with it. Maybe I just hate the direction it's all gone. Gone are the days of just a shell and vim. Now it's all yaml, dockerfiles, scrum meetings, ERDs ,et cetera. It kinda feels like too many weasels got their hands in the pot.

I don't know what's next, if anything. I can probably ride it out another 15 or 20 years and retire. But I hope I find some calling that pays maybe 60% as well. Guess time will tell.

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> Gone are the days of just a shell and vim. Now it's all yaml, dockerfiles, scrum meetings, ERDs ,et cetera. It kinda feels like too many weasels got their hands in the pot.

Oh no, I'm in my twenties and already begin to feel like that. I still like working on code and business problems, but there seems to be too much unnecessary stuff around it.

I like it when things are lean and agile: Build the Monolith, rsync/git deploy to server, restart with Systemd.

Now it's all Scrum + Microservices in Docker and everything takes ages.

similar situation here. for me after a decade of professional coding the benefits - mental stimulation of discovering and learning something new, start to get outweighed by the negatives - fatigue from repetitive work and hamster wheel economics

I'd actually like some repetitive work, at least so i can be an expert in a stack. It's always some new system, team, or new tech with no training/background/etc every 2 years, but with the same stupid business issues.

> Gone are the days of just a shell and vim. Now it's all yaml, dockerfiles, scrum meetings, ERDs ,et cetera.

I miss shell too. I have setup a new challenge for myself, transition to shell + vim (neovim?) for all my dev work. The goal is to eventually use iPad + Blink shell and work off a VPS for personal projects. And stay in iTerm on work laptop.

Probably use Docker to make VPS reproducible or may just use a shell script to download and configure various softwares.

VSCode has spoiled me, control + click to browse to any class is just so hard to give up. But I am excited about going back to how I started with programming. This project has brought a lot of joy to my everyday work too.

"Gone are the days of just a shell and vim. Now it's all yaml, dockerfiles, scrum meetings, ERDs ,et cetera."

I remember being able to run PRD elevations putty'd in to the servers (from the internal network). No more.

What is your salary?

Between 2 and 300. Should be 235ish this year.

It's definitely non-trivial to be able to generate 60% of that without trading your time or investing a considerable amount of time / money first.

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