Posted this in a comment on @Tipa's amazing blog ( https://chasingdings.com/ ) but wanted to throw it out to the world in general
"Between you & @scopique I’m kind of feeling that love of coding starting to maybe return.
I really miss back when I just LOVED to code. Not sure when/how I lost it, but I suspect a lot of it has to do with my job now being 100% fixing things and never building anything new. But I can build new stuff on my own time, for me!"
@Nimgimli@Tipa Gawd yeah. I learned that 'get a job doing what you love and you'll never 'work' another day in your life' was complete BS when I got a job as a developer. I didn't end up hating development, just having to do it for other people with other people's rules.
I still love doing development for myself, but some days, after work, I don't want to SEE any more code...because of the job, not the activity.
I'm thinking like, grab an old laptop and install VS Code on it and literally take it to another spot other than my desk that I sit at all day, and play around there.
Kind of try to trick my brain into treating it as a separate activity, if that makes sense.
@Nimgimli@Tipa Absolutely. My desk is near my work desk, but sometimes I wish I had a "good" laptop I could take elsewhere in the house to work on my own stuff.
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