nobody271

Sorry if this is just complaining to you. I've been thinking this way a lot lately.

I've been programming professionally for eight years. I just have so little interest in doing anything with computers anymore. For me programming has become a continuous stream of problems. For example, if you try to install software A you'll run directly into something like "error 12394: can't read stream. blah blah blah" and then you have to Google that and eventually find out it's because SQLite isn't installed or it is but it's global. You know, stuff like that. Maybe you get a mystery error that you just have to Google your way through and by the end you've tried so many things you don't even know if it was JUST the last thing that fixed it. Stuff like that.

But maybe what I find the most frustrating is the subjective nature of what "good" means. Like it's all in head-space. You can write something absolutely brilliant and no one has any idea unless you sell it to them and at that point it's just about selling it to them. For example, I've been doing woodworking as a hobby and with that there is a physical object that people can see. If you don't do your cuts right it's obvious. People can see. Your work speaks for itself.

I could go on but basically, programming has changed for me. I used to feel being good meant knowing the most and at some point the people who knew nothing changed what the important things to know were and it's been backwards ever since. I'm just tired of sitting behind a computer screen all day. All day! I swear I'd rather plow fields but that pays like $4/hr.

Anyone else feel like this? Just looking to see what like minded people have to say about this. Thanks.

I've been a developer for eight years. I don't really enjoy it anymore. Yesterday I got fired for what I think is a pretty dumb reason. I'm just kind of done with the whole programming thing. It hasn't really turned out to be what I thought it would.

I can survive for maybe six months so this could be a chance to retrain myself. But I'm like super socially awkward and spending 9 hours in an office is hell for me. I don't want to go back to an office.

I do have an interest in AI and could possibly learn enough about that to get some kind of job if I trained for it full time for the next six months. That is, I know probably enough math to start learning. But that's just going to put me into a higher class of office workers who will eventually realize I'm nothing like them and inevitably start to hate or disrespect me.

I've been getting into woodworking but as I understand it it's pretty hard to make a living doing woodworking. Honestly, at this point in my life what I want is to be my own man. I want to be independent. I don't want to go to some work place where people tell me who I am and how I am supposed to behave. I've done that and it hasn't worked out for me. I need to try something new.

My work experience is in web development and a little mobile development in Xamarin. I've done some VR projects in Unity. Like I said I do know a little math. I'm comfortable on Debian. Blah blah blah.

I'd really appreciate your suggestions about what direction I might want to head in next. Thanks.