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Sometimes.
I still really enjoy problem solving but when I end up having to write pages of boiler plate I start to get a bit peeved. My perfect gig is to build just enough of the prototype to know it'll work and then hand it over to a minion to finish 
veni bibi saltavi
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At times I still love it. Creators want to create. At other times I'm sick and tired of it, but I think that has more to do with the industry rather than the creation process.
Jeremy Falcon
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How you getting on? Have you adjusted to life on the left coast?
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Yeah, like anywhere, there are some really cool people here... then those you gotta learn to avoid. With the amount of people here, you have to learn how to sharpen your avoid radar. But once you do that, it's all good.
Jeremy Falcon
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It's complicated  .
I like coding new features, where I feel like I'm not bound by what's gone before. Unfortunately that doesn't happen too often. Our products have a lifespan of 10 years or more, so we end up spending a lot of time on maintenance. Most of the time when I'm adding a new feature, I have to keep in mind a bewildering pile of constraints, prior practice, backward compatibility, and so on.
Misquoting Norm Abrams of The New Yankee Workshop, I have to "measure 3 or 4 times, then cut. And always wear your safety glasses!".
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: The New Yankee Workshop
Love that show. Seems like it is not on any more. What a pity. And this old house. Wonderfully cheesy stuff.
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Jaded, but still love it. I like the creative problem solving aspects of the job. What I'm not a big fan of is shifting requirements. People (read as management) seem to know what they don't want instead of what they want. You code to spec, and then when they get it in front of them they look at, and say they don't like it or its not what they wanted. What do you mean that is not what you wanted you put it in the #@#$% spec and signed off on it. 
Alright so maybe I'm leaning more toward the jaded side. However, this doesn't stop me from my side projects. And those are always accepted and coded to spec. 
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I like to code just a bit, or a byte, maybe.
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we like bit both of them!
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: and can't wait to start.
I stopped feeling that way when I got my first full-time job programming. Customers, deadlines, and silly requirements took all the fun out of it. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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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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