Recently, a member of our team got burned out and had to leave. Basically, he got into a death march situation on an overdue project, started by working late to catch up which grew into stranger and stranger hours. Eventually, he was leaving when everyone else was arriving and starting work in the evenings. Consequently, he developed s...
I'd love to see a wide sampling of StackOverflow users as I feel that you all tend to represent developers with higher than average passion for your craft. Thanks! ...
I'm one year away from finishing my bachelor's degree in Computer Science, and I'm not about to give up or anything. However, I've also spent time working in the field, developing software that people actually use, and I've absolutely loved it. I do understand the importance of learning theory, and I have been doing so for the past 3+ ...
I refer to: "35, lost interest in programming, system administration sucks, don't want to go in management. What to do?" question got more than 600 replies. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/73vm8/35_lost_interest_in_programming_system/ genuine question regarding the same, looking for the real answers. any thoughts? ...
What would be some efficient (economical) ways to recover from a creative burn out ...
Hi All I am a developer with a BS degree in Computer Engineering, with around 6 years of chronological experience. I have been in a company which has seen changes and twists and turns. Unfortunately all of the projects I have been involved have either remained incomplete due to change in focus of the group or have been abandoned becaus...
I've been programming for 8 years now (since I was 15), and working with internet for 7 of those. I remember when I first learned how excited I was when I was taking my firs Pascal lessons... I thought in code, and was always experimenting, even with my limited knowledge. When I got my first job (the same company I'm still working today)...
Does anybody else feel like they need to change jobs every year or two to stay sane and happy or am I just in the wrong profession entirely? I think I am burned out both on my current job and burned out on programming in general. Let me explain. I have been a software engineer for going on 8 years and I am now nearly two years into my...
It happens to most of us, I'm sure. We've sat down to work on a problem, only to forget about dinner, then breakfast, and sometimes lunch. "Two minutes" often becomes "until 2 A.M." and then when we finally take a break and we find ourselves continuing to work on the same code, or worse. At what point do you know to stop and do someth...
As a programmer, I feel burnt out if the management give me spec after spec, day after day. I think I can code 6 hours a day very focused, but non-stop coding does burn me out a little, especially it is 1 year or 18 months non-stop. A mere 1 week or 2 week vacation per year isn't going to help much. Sometimes I want to take some time ...
Sometimes I just don't know how to stop working. I have a task to be completed in N days and for some reason I don't quite get, I want to make it in one. I just see how the clock keeps going, 6pm 7pm 8pm .... 3am Is not that I really like the code or something, this is different. It like when you thought the change/fix would be soo...
As a one person company programmer who is writing shareware (aka no customer meetings etc.) this hits me many times. What is your way to deal with it and find motivation to work on your code again? Even my previous way to write down very small steps on a paper that you can physical strike through when done - to give you a real feelin...
I've reached the point of burnout and I haven't even started my career. Whenever I look at C it looks nice and light and just clean until I start writing anything in it. C++ is just plain and simply ugly, I won't even say anything about PHP, Lua and Python kinda ok but quickly gets to the point where I just can't enjoy writing anything i...