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Coding + Burnout, how do other lainons fair? I'll hyperfocus on coding until I get burned out then I'm left with nothing to do T_T, it's quite annoying especially with how many projects I wanna do!!

>>38566 I think about programming every day. My mind is a mess of visualizations for various systems, many hypothetical. Despite this, I've not programmed much at all this year. I'm plagued by the need to write libraries for some tasks, and not wanting to finish other, annoying tasks.

im so burnt out its ridiculous, i joined a startup and everyone here is the worst, its making me hate the industry more than i ever did before

Come back when you're over 18.

I'm completely burned out on coding and I dislike many modern tech trends. I'm currently NEET but I know how to code basic programs in Python and couple of other languages. I'm currently learning OOP. But I have been thinking for a long time now that I probably want to pursue some other career instead of software engineering. Maybe something like chemistry or something, I don't know... Currently, I'm reading a lot of books on different topics to help me decide. >>38572 Rude!

>>38576 yes, certainly think about it deeply. Its not a good time to start your career in programming especially if you only basics of coding

>>38568 i feel that, i love visualizing web + back end structures >>38576 am a neet and just code for fun but like its become my only hobby bc anhedonia ruins everything else, it just is like kicking dead whales down the beach. at least im learning golang while moving away from php :p, then I can forget python and just use go for everything im not even coding for a career i just do it for fun/keep my mind occupied... >>38572 im 25 in a few months idiot

>>38566 >>38569 >>38572 I'm 25 and I find that I never really got burned out on coding. I thought I was burned out on programming/cs/math but it was actually that my overall mental health and lifestyle were very bad. I'd look into improving your life overall and maybe get a therapist. Also keep in mind most software devs only spend 3-4 hours a day actually programming. If you're hitting that mark on average you're doing good and will eventually be above average. Everyone has standards set by FAANG and MIT. >>38576 If you're burned out before you've even properly learned OOP, there are two possibilities, either you've worked on a ton of programs without learning OOP, or your lifestyle is fuarrrked and you're mistaking that for disliking programming I had pretty bad executive dysfunction (and still do), I spent about a year programming on and off without OOP. What really helped me was going to college and being forced to learn things in a structured manner. I ended up programming more outside of school while at school than I ever had because I was forced to think about and interact with content on a daily basis. If you don't want to do programming professionally feel free to never learn OOP, the problem is that vast majority of APIs and libraries you're going to want to use involve OOP and a few will involve functional programming

>>38898 > If you don't want to do programming professionally feel free to never learn OOP, the problem is that vast majority of APIs and libraries you're going to want to use involve OOP and a few will involve functional programming I don't really belive this claim, either way i got away not really needing to know OO while working. I've grown a appreciation for it due to smalltalk, but by no means is it required, nor do languages like Java or C# use proper OO in action. > If you're burned out before you've even properly learned OOP, there are two possibilities, either you've worked on a ton of programs without learning OOP, or your lifestyle is fuarrrked and you're mistaking that for disliking programming I don't think your logic is very general. depending on what projects you tend to work on it may be more procedural or even more "functional".

I take a break. I get off my Thinkpad and go outside to do something. I don't make it a habit to "just and code" for hours. It's stupid and counter productive in the long run.

>>38566 I just let it wax and wane. Sometimes I spend evening after evening working on personal projects. Other times, I'm busy being social, moving, or working on other things. All my personal projects are in git (separate repos for the big ones and a monorepo for all the small scripts), and every non-trivial project has a TODO.org file that I use as a lightweight issue tracker. That makes is super easy to resume working on a project when I'm in the mood for some programming. I just look at the uncommitted changes (if any), last commits, and the top of the TODO.org file.

Burnout is not doing too much, its too little progress. So drop perfection and focus on getting soykaf done to avoid it. You can still optimizing later when its working and you actually need more speed. Often times you can write absolutely soykafty code and it still runs fast enough thanks to hardware.

>>38568 This is an old post but you should consider seeing a psychologist and maybe getting ADHD medication

>>38566 just have some fun! Go out, hiking or see a movie, concert go play tennis or dance or something, you will go back to computer with all the feelings of burnout dissappeared!