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Ask HN: Career advice on what to do after you lose interest in programming

17 min 26 sec ago

I’m really tired of my job as an engineer, I have hit a point where I just don’t care about what I do anymore.

Interesting problems to work on are so few and far between each other that it’s a real treat when one comes up. 99.9% of the work to do is plumbing type work that is necessary but very boring and tedious once you’ve done it a few times.

The thing that is really soul crushing is having to pretend to care. At least one person you work with is going to be unable to separate their sense of self worth with their next performance review. This will create unnecessary stress and tension for everyone else who just wants to do their job and go home. Working 80 hours a week just so we can mark the ticket as done on time in Jira is not something I’m doing anymore. I have absolutely no confidence that whatever it is we are working on will actually be impactful in any way.

I like programming as a hobby, I like making things, and learning new things. I don’t really feel like doing this professionally is really checking these boxes for me as much as I want anymore, but I don’t know what else to do.

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