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That is a shame - I made a career change, purely by chance, and have never looked back and, for the most part, have enjoyed it all. I am sad when someone does not get the same sense of joy from the job they have, for now, chosen to do. 
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I still love it. As long as it's proper coding, that is. Drag and drop coding doesn't really suit me, and herding cats (which is my role on my current project) even less. Thankfully my boss knows that I'm not a cat herder and has promised I'll be a coder on the next project.
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I have consistently refused "advancements" into project management and other sh*t I'm not good at. So yes, I am coding and I LOVE coding. The old stuff, the new stuff, the bleeding edge stuff... all the stuff.
And I'm 54, and have been coding for 35 years.
Salary? Yeah, it's a lot lower than it would have been if I had accepted the suggestions to go the management path. But do you know what? I fall asleep smiling every night.
Peter the small turnip
(1) It Has To Work. --RFC 1925[^]
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Amen, brother! I'll be 56 this year and I have about the same number of years of coding in my history as well. I'm sure I'll be a coding fool until they pry the keyboard from my cold, dead hands. 
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As one of the shows I loved in high school used to put it: "You bet your bippy, I do.."
I started coding in college, then went on to some "real world" jobs. I tried to stay technical, but almost every company I worked for tried to push me into management. I tried management and I hated it. So I went back to programming.
My biggest problem is that there are few jobs for senior citizen programmers, especially out here in the "boondocks."
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
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Similar - I don't rec all seeing that but, then, I don't remember what I had for breakfast last week.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: Similar - I don't rec all seeing that but, then, I don't remember what I had for breakfast last week.
It was bacon.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Jaded for me, industry is filled with experts and won't let me do things my own way.
do or do not, there is no try
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Last year I was in a blue funk and didn't love anything much, least of all coding.
I eventually stopped being so hard on myself, relaxed, and now I'm all fired up again! I love problem solving, I love crafting a simple, elegant solution, I love making an app really slick, and learning things as I implement features and fix bugs. I really, really love coding - it completes me 
Disclaimer: I'm sole developer on a small but complex/fun little app, and the company I contract with gives me an office and a plate of cooked food every day, lots of trust, and very little interference.
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Sounds like an ideal job. Good for you, you likely deserve it.
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I wish! I feel guilty because I don't do automated or unit testing; my debugging involves stepping through code or sprinkling "print" statements everywhere (embedded background). There are probably more deserving developers. I certainly appreciate it though!
Sadly the contract has come to an end. I'm Interviewing with big corporates and software dev sweatshops with a heavy heavy heart
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I like everything that helps to solve a problem. If code is the right answer, I'm in. If pissing on a bed is the wish, get some Russian hookers.
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Yes, I like to code.
Not always so much at work, you have legacy code, simple code and code that comes nowhere near the quality you may expect from a professional team, but of course there are also the fun projects.
In my own time I love coding!
When I got a good project, like arrgh.js, I can't wait to get home and start coding, sometimes until well in the night.
And then there are times when I just rather slack on the couch and do nothing
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I really love to code. But in my current work I'm getting jaded because I dont have new challenges.
So I go home and start to code, learning new languages and so on.
I'm a young software developer with only 4 years of experience.
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I still love to code - and I've been coding for almost thirty years now.
I've marked the beginning as the day when I first got a lime colored hot-air balloon to move across a blue background; I can still remember sitting on the floor in front of a 26" tv, copying the instructions from the C=64 user's manual. Those numbers were magic, and I took the bait... hook, line and sinker. Not many days after there were a plethora of things that I could move across the screen and in different colors too!
So, the last thirty years I've been doing what I love, and the last fifteen with the added benefit of a monthly salary.
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That's exactly what got me hooked. Pretty sure I bought it from Radio Shack.
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I started programming in 1969 and ended up as an Analyst but my true love was, and still is, coding (from my own design). I look on programming as an art. I love to see well thought out and efficient code. I am now 71 years old, retired but still programming (learning C#) to keep the little grey cells active. I will stop programming when I am in my box.
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Will that be a Windows, Linux or BSD box? 
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IBM Mainframe, PDP 11, NCR, Assembler, Cobol, Fortran, Windows, C, C++, C#, VB, many more. You name it, been there done that...
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I do. I find it relaxing and satisfying. To be able to build things virtually before your eyes knowing first at the end that it works, and many times after that someone will use it and make their lives better is a great feeling.
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If you don't enjoy programming, try getting stuck in a retail job for a few years. It'll make even the most humble select statement a joy.
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Interesting question, phrased as is. Is it really the coding that people enjoy?
For me, I'm still interested in the problem solving aspect. Actual coding, which framework we use, blah, blah, blah, not so much.
It's fun to learn some of these newer tools and use them, but ultimately, the code is just a way to execute the problem solution. The design of which is the actually interesting part of this job.
Well, maybe not this job, more in a more general sense...
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agolddog wrote: Is it really the coding that people enjoy?
For me, yes. I like the problem solving but I love crafting something new where nothing existed before that solves that problem and does so in an elegant and efficient manner.
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I love writing the bleeding edge stuff. I wrote some code in 2008 that was still running, unmodified, in 2015. It was an awesome feeling... knowing that something I had written way back when was still running.
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