Hello. You can call me @modev. I would like to write free #software, but I've been writing commercial software for 20 years to make a living for my family. I have been interested in #programming since childhood for about 25 years. I started with BASIC, Pascal, and even started learning :clang: #clang, but then switched to more “advanced” technologies. As a result, I found a job as a web #developer while still at university, where I still work. I am a JavaScript master, I created my own SPA Ajax framework from scratch back when React and Angular were not in the project, but who is interested in this, except for the company I work for? As a result, I, burned out many times, rising from the ashes of commercial development and all this crap, decided to return to the roots and teach :clang:. All I can do now is to believe that I will still make my contribution to the #development of free software, but for now I’m glad to be in your #community and learn new things, this is the only way I can save myself from burnout. Thanks everyone!
I could have written this way, but I decided not to do it there, having registered in the newly created community#writefreesoftware. Thank you, @drewdevault for creating it!
Wow, that's sad to hear. For some reason, that spared me. However, despite a bit working with Python+Flask, I never was in webdev. I went into systems programming, like Linux Kernel, Linux images, Linux apps in C, C++/Qt, Bootloader, Embedded. Hardware Drivers. I did some FOSS work (like upstream driver work for the Linux kernel, or patches to Barebox, or being one of the 4 founders of #OpenEmbedded) ... but like you I mostly did "behind the doors" code to pay my family and house.
But nothing of this ever touched my mental health.
I however heard several times from burnout of WebDevs. Do you think this is just by coincidence... or is there something in the WebDev industry that is gnawing on people's health?
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