Bored with Tech
First of all, thanks everyone who reacted and consoled me in my last post. The family member who was ill is fine now. Thanks for your prayers.
Now, after all this health issue ended, I retrospected on my layoff and the only thing I could come to is that I am not much interested in this job anymore. And yes, I was a solid coder who loves to do it as well. And it's not the uncertainty of job that led me to this decision. It's just that I am not quite feeling to continue coding. I do not feel excited to solve problems anymore. It feels very monotonous and boring. And maybe I could join a startup as Sde and fire myself up but that's too much for me.
So, I wanted to ask is it just me or is anyone else also feeling the same?
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I can relate especially after AI. Even higher ups think any problem is just right AI prompt away. It has taken the joy out of coding or learning about code for me.
Agreed. AI is one of the major reasons who has taken out the thrill of problem solving. Gone are the days where searching through pages of Stack Overflow to get that one right solution
Bro out of context hai but, i applied to plivo and recieved assignment. I did my best but ceo didn't like my assignment. Was that issue of language specific like I used go in backend but demand was of fastapi.
Can you please guide me in case of further applying and response, how to clear the assignment round
It would be weird if you didn't feel that way. Technical challenges start falling into pigeon holes after a few years of experience. And the business side of things will only be interesting to you if you are that ambitious. Otherwise it feels like all your effort is going into making a difference in the digits after the decimal point to the company's bottomline; and not making any difference to the world at large or making a difference to your own life beyond financial security
What a well-written comment man! Hats off! Each and every word is correct
Same here, but can't be without getting salary so have to keep working whether we are interested or not. If I had generational wealth or any sort of family business or a farm, I would be happily maintaining it
Same boat 🚢 switching to Spirituality and Farming intelligently
I feel in these times, spirituality is my saviour. The one thing that makes sense.
Feels like better to have a farm, some cows🐮 and the old songs radio.. wake up at 5 sleep at 10.. peaceful life. 😌
Here's an idea guys.. you guys are software developers.. you know how to build stuff.. you got bored of it.. now why not try BREAKING them? :D
Welcome to the field of cybersecurity ✨
Fair warning: cybersecurity will be EXTREMELY rough on you but if you have a drive for understanding how stuff works and finding all the ways it could go off (not a QA perspective but a security perspective) it'll be rewarding
Though the job market does seem to be a bit hard to get into at the moment
Tbh, from school time, I wanted to become a ethical hacker. I started learning, took part in some bug bounties but eventually ended up as SDE only as I saw that India doesn't have much opportunity in Cyber Security. And exactly one of the reason to take it up was the thrill.
We need to foucs more on application now since coding take less time we have to think with business perspective.
I relate to this a lot and usually discuss this with a great programmer friend of mine. We came to the joint conclusion that corporate programming is actually pretty soulless , since at the end of the day that code is just being written for the purpose of building a business. Try doing something interesting on your own (I built my own interpreter and ray tracer, also am currently writing a golang library for fast cardinality counting ). You'll realize that coding is actually fun, its the whole "connect a db, have a queue, use a cache, have a server for business logic" shtick that makes corporate programming so repetitive and boring
Bro.. if you have enough generational wealth. Leave everything and try preparing for UPSC and spend some days in ORN(Old Rajendra Nagar).
The fire in you will rise through your head to sun one more time. And you will feel alive one more time.😉
I would better join politics then, not a govt job 😐
Exactly same situation. Ditto