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The thread below about programming books got me thinking about how much I still love to code even though I don't do as much as I used to at work (busy herding cats people) but still play with the new stuff in my own time.
However, if I know I have some coding to do at work, I still get excited and can't wait to start. And that's after nearly thirty years of doing the job.
Do you still love your job or are you getting jaded? I think JSOP is given his earlier post! 
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They hired me as a programmer to write code, and now I'm nothing but a script monkey. And that's after 35 years of coding.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Sounds like you need to be looking for a new gig...
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It's probably because you complain a lot. 
Jeremy Falcon
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I only complain when there appears to be human-induced persistence with regards to screw ups.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Oh I know, I do the same thing too. Even still, doesn't mean people still like it. Being right doesn't always mean having friends. And we all make mistakes.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: And we all make mistakes.
Not JSOP! He is the Chuck Norris of coding. 
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Oh yeah. I forgot. Only on my second cup of ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) .
Jeremy Falcon
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I only complain when there appears to be human-induced persistence with regards to screw ups. |
Like Jeremy said, you complain a lot!
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Option 2 - I'm getting tired of driving a desk and considering a career change.
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Still love it.
If you don't love what you do, you are in the wrong job. You spend 1/3rd of your life asleep. You spend 1/3 at work (or more, if the company can get you to), you spend much of the rest getting to and from work (and generally paying a small fortune for the privilege). If you aren't loving it ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: you spend much of the rest getting to and from work (and generally paying a small fortune for the privilege).
[SMUGFACE] I walk to work - 15 minutes each way. [/SMUGFACE]
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: [SMUGFACE] I walk to work - 15 minutes each way. [/SMUGFACE]
[EVENSMUGGERFACE] So do I - 15 seconds each way. [/EVENSMUGGERFACE]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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[ANOTHERSMUGGERFACE] 15 seconds for me too.  [ANOTHERSMUGGERFACE]
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OriginalGriff wrote: [SMUGFACE] I walk to work - 15 minutes each way. [/SMUGFACE]
[THESMUGGESTSMUGFACE] 15 seconds for me too - but now I do it for fun, having retired a number of years ago  [/THESMUGGESTSMUGFACE]
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I used to lease office space a 15 minute drive from home, couldn't stand it. Going out into the cold in the winter, wasting 30 minutes of my evening driving to and from the office if a client had an emergency or a server was having issues, having to put on clothes on days that I didn't need to see anyone...it was all very annoying and inefficient. Did that for 3 years until I found the perfect live/work setup for me and the business...now I roll out of bed, put on a robe, walk 20 ft to the front office and usually spend the rest of my day like that. Awesome.
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OriginalGriff wrote: [EVENSMUGGERFACE] So do I - 15 seconds each way. [/EVENSMUGGERFACE]
Sorry for you... sounds like you 'work from home'... if not properly managed that 15 seconds can be much to close for comfort.
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Nah.
I used to work 35 miles from home; worse I lived in Hampshire, and worked inside the M25 (the London orbital motorway). Which meant that I had to fight traffic each way every day as I went with the flow of commuters heading into London. Those 35 miles took an hour on a good day (on a motorbike, a car would have doubled it): but all it ever took was some moron to do something stupid and that would easily double. And there were a lot of morons. So to be sure of getting in for 09:00, I left home at 07:00. Which meant the alarm went off at 05:00. And in those days, I was drinking a lot (partly to relax after I got home, partly I was under huge amounts of stress without even knowing it) - so I had to average 8 hours sleep a day, which meant I was in bed by 10 or earlier. My "me time" was working out at a couple of hours a week, and most of that was taken up with shopping, mowing, cleaning, and related cr@p. OK, I earned a lot of money - but I spent a lot of it on travelling as well! And I made nowhere near as much as my efforts earned the company, not by several orders of magnitude.
Now? I work when I want, how I want. I hardly drink at all, I sleep 5 to 7 hours a night, and I am unstressed. I enjoy what I do, rather than doing it because it needs to be done.
Work / Life balance is important. But I prefer to load the "life" part, rather than the "work" part.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Good!! Very few find the ability to walk away from the desk at home and 'live' or to turn off the job. It sounds to me like you've mastered that. I managed it when I had a home office for a number of years but knew several of my coworkers that ended up spending nearly every waking hour on the phone behind the keyboard. Getting the balance right is the key. My hat is off to you!
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KC@CahabaGBA wrote: Sorry for you... sounds like you 'work from home'... if not properly managed that 15 seconds can be much to close for comfort.
So maybe the next question might be: how many of you work from home?
I guess "loving to code" and "working from home" are strictly related
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OriginalGriff wrote: If you aren't loving it ...
Well, when you're right, you're right.
Jeremy Falcon
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Same as 
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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My commute consists of descending into the basement to the luxurious Embedded Developer Office Suite. Maybe 30 seconds each way, and that makes this one of the best jobs I ever had, especially when it's -5 and snowing outside. I can work in a nice place to live (Nebraska) instead of some tech ghetto like California or Arizona. If an idea wakes me up at 3am I can head right to the keyboard to capture it, and if I'm brain dead at 2pm I can take a break to watch some awful TV show on Youtube (ever watch those Belarussian military TV mini-series?).
My job is about 75% software, 25% hardware so I get a much-needed break from coding every now and then. Yes, I still like to code, but I also like designing the controller board I'g going to program. It's always a challenge to optimize the hardware layout to best advantage for the firmware. Only down side is testing for all those edge cases that show up in embedded designs, like batteries suddenly failing when it's only -40 outside, or the solar cell ices up and battery charger shuts down.
I am isolated, no co-workers sitting next to me in cubicles, but that's equally good and bad. Skype and Slack takes up some of the, err, slack in socializing and talking out problems. The team is diverse and spread out across North America but we do have good communications and keep in touch daily. Management works hard to limit meetings to a minimum for those actually producing, and that's a big plus too. I can go all day in the coding zone without interruptions.
After some 40+ years writing software and laying out circuit boards I would never do anything else. Not sure I'd feel the same way writing web pages to sell shoes, but even e-commerce websites have their place in improving society.
Jack Peacock
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Management that understands interruptions aren't conducive to productivity? WTF? Are you pulling our leg? How the heck did that happen? If upper management finds out, your bosses are looking at pink slips. 
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