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The more I work as a software engineer the less I like programming. Been doing it for 6+ years on Senior level and just hate having to deal with meaningless things all the time.

Be it boilerplate or spending a whole day on unit tests or doing something else fiddly or debugging issues. Just hate this type of meaningless low level work.

What are my options to do high level work that doesn't involve programming but is still in tech. I can be good at talking to people if I need to.

Been looking at Cloud Solutions Architect or PM/PO of some sort. Any suggestions?

I'm looking for discord channels where people discuss intellectual and interesting topics from the world of science, tech, finance, life. Somewhere that's active and has enough members

I've heard this being said about mathematics and we know that both programming and math are logic based and pretty much require the same thinking techniques and programming is derived from math. So, wouldn't it be true that it's a young man's game for programming too?

You only see top programmers who started as kids and probably won some Olympiads and programming competitions, and this continued in their 20s and maybe kept their skill up till 30s but that's about it. What do they do after that?

I'm 30 and missed my chance to be a kid prodigy in programming or math and clearly not happening now. Is there an area where you can be good at as you get older and what is the old man's game options as a programmer?

I want to start blogging, creating youtube videos and some other type of online presence on tech related topics. However, I don't know how to start and how to baby step my way into it.

I used to be very creative as a teenager and young adult and had many ideas on creating funny videos and game related content, but that died as I grew older and now I feel like I don't have any creativity left, how do I get some of it back?

Are there any online communities around creating content as a beginner that I can learn from?