Did you ever notice yourself becoming a developer?

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Did you ever notice yourself becoming a developer?

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It seems to have come to the point now where I've stopped searching the 'net for entertaining flash games, music websites, social networking & the latest FPS games. All I seem to do now it wander around PHP forums, read Slashdot, get ideas for a PHP project and then realise I'm not good enough for that yet and generally just read code and see if I can make sense of it.
Is this my fate now? Am I forever tied to programming?
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yes.
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I thought it was just me. I remember the days where I could spend literally hours online without getting bored. Now my daily online activities (apart from work) are reduced to a few sites of at most an hour a day. Just seem to be bored of everything else / seen it all before.

Please tell me I'm not getting old :-(
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It's not all that new and shiny anymore. It doesn't have that fresh new car smell. That's not getting old, that's routine or possibly complacency.
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Post by mikesmith76 »

That's not getting old, that's routine or possibly complacency.
Yeah i've kind of just accepted it's there, seems like it always has been there and it's not going anywhere. Like you said it's lost that fresh smell and feel
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:yes.
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Post by LiveFree »

yes.

And you notice a new set of things are fun for a developer (DailyWTF, coming here)
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$this->topic->Post('Yeah, I completely understand what ya mean ' . $this->topic->topicStarter . ' once you\'ve been programming for so long you practically live it.');


$this->topic->offtopicPost('Just google The Daily WTF, it's quite interesting.');

$this->topic->allowFlamebait(false);
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I originally got into the IT profession because I had an interest in installing and configuring hardware. Developing came to me by chance. :)
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Re: Did you ever notice yourself becoming a developer?

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impulse() wrote:It seems to have come to the point now where I've stopped searching the 'net for entertaining flash games, music websites, social networking & the latest FPS games. All I seem to do now it wander around PHP forums, read Slashdot, get ideas for a PHP project and then realise I'm not good enough for that yet and generally just read code and see if I can make sense of it.
Is this my fate now? Am I forever tied to programming?
Nah.

Depends on your interests I guess.

I do pretty much everything you listed and more. :P
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Jenk wrote:I originally got into the IT profession because I had an interest in installing and configuring hardware. Developing came to me by chance. :)
I went to a vocational H.S. and took plumbing as a trade....when i moved to NJ with my brother he suggested thst i try somethin different...originally i picked PC tech but he wouldent leave me alone about not picking programming so i picked it...i dont regret it xept every now and again when you try to explain a problem that your having to one of your friends or your significant other then they see you perplexed and they draw the "ok im sorry i asked" blank face when you finish explaining it....but its all worth it again when you learn somethin new and it works the first time you try it...or when i get a question answered or a difficult problem soved here on the boards....also cool to see how much you learned when you answer a "forum newbies" question and know that you were there not so long ago :)

i totally agree also with the loosing interest in other stuff...as of late ive even had trouble staying interested while playing WoW with my buds because of thinking of a new PHP function ive seen here or scoped online and wanted to try or wanting to know more about it
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Post by Jenk »

I've actually started to become bored of it. This is possibly a personal behaviour of mine, I have lots of '5 minute wonders' scattered around my house..

Lately I've only been dealing with the same problems, repeatedly. Not a lot of new stuff.. a lot of it I can do on Auto-pilot.

EDIT: also influencing this is the rest of my 'life' is currently up in arms, so relatively speaking.. the development world is very mundane :P
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Jenk wrote:I've actually started to become bored of it. This is possibly a personal behaviour of mine, I have lots of '5 minute wonders' scattered around my house..

Lately I've only been dealing with the same problems, repeatedly. Not a lot of new stuff.. a lot of it I can do on Auto-pilot.
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I've become generally put off by almost any task I have to do on a computer now. This all started about 8 months ago when I started losing interest in gaming (due primarily to a horrible internet connection). It has cascaded into what is now a <span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span>-poor attitude about sitting in front of these damn screens all day biding my time until 5:00 rolls around.

I wish I were back in your shoes, full of zest and interest, eager to learn and defeat the next challenge...but alas I've become a damn drone bored with it all. Thing is, there is still PLENTY for me to learn, I just don't have the interest nor desire to do so.... :cry:
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Post by MrPotatoes »

i've been a developer for over 5 years now and i've gone through quite a few languages. jack of all trades master of none. i've noticed that i've gotten good/better and definatly better than any of my friends so that makes me kind of sad.

i don't lose interest in other things because i'd rather be developing but because they are lame or just annoyingly time consuming. ie, time waster. so i don't bother with social networking sites or video/image sites. i want to do something with my life and that does not include wasting my time watching videos/images and not accomplishing anything.

i've gotten to a point where i have to honestly tell myself that i won't do any development until i do something else because that's all i'll do. i think i've got an addictive personality (surprisingly not to drugs and god knows i'm <span style='color:blue' title='I&#39;m naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span> surrounded at times).

i've noticed that i'm a coder and somewhat of a computer scientist. what i actually want to be is a computer scientist. i want to solve problems with language. beit that language is a computer language but that's what i want to do. i want to master the art of speaking with and to a computer (as an english majoer with the english language) and not simply make a computer do something. i want it to react and be lively. i want my frikkin' PHd in this stuff.

i am planning on starting my own company. hopefully in the next few years. baby steps but i've never been more sure of something. international commerse and advertising.

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