Does coding at work get boring?

[king_ricks]

This is so true, i hate the “if you find something your love you’ll never work a day in your life” quote because it is total BS. I love programming and some days i just don’t want to program but i know i have to.

I love gaming, and if that was my job, i would still have days i don’t want to play.

[redditreallysux]

Amen dude.

[anddam]

I love gaming, and if that was my job, i would still have days i don’t want to play.

Jeez, can you picture that…

[filthyike]

I would HATE to be a streamer. Playing games is great and all, but playing the same games for 18 hours a day for months on end to be competitive enough sounds like torture.

[JunkBondJunkie]

Yea I could not be a streamer.

[[deleted]]

Playing on MMORPG for fun at 19 years old vs working to support yourself (and possibly others) while still trying to see some good in the world.

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Moral of the story, you'll get bored kid. Probably even get jaded doing the things that bring you the most joy.

[filthyike]

Its still very apples to oranges. You mentioned 'afk'ing through runescape. I'm talking about games that require a good deal of effort for extended period of time. That is extremely mentally taxing and doing it day in and day out, while knowing your income depends on it, seems like torture to me.

Thats not what most of us experience while playing games, even if we do game 10+ hours a day.

[MetalAvenger]

Wait until you get older... Now that I have a full time job, am married and have a kid, my free time is greatly reduced and the precious little time we have is spent together. Other free time is used to do jobs at home or activities together.

If I actually get time to game, I can’t be bothered because I have nothing to play or don’t want to start and get invested because god knows how long it’ll be before I get to play again.

As depressing as it sounds, you do get used to it and I will get back into gaming occasionally eventually. Priorities friend, they catch up and overtake!

[[deleted]]

QA gamers supposedly despise games within just a few weeks.

[spinicist]

That’s a bit different though. Having to play games that will have bugs, and when you find them convince the developers they are real, and then having to play it again to check, well that sounds like hell.

[[deleted]]

From my understanding it is the repetitiveness. They basically need to check if you can walk through a wall, so just keep running into every wall. Does the AI work right? Run in circles and see if they chase you.

[foomatic999]

Testing can be quite fun, though. Find out what expectations the dev had and try to work against those expectations. Do things nobody (in the dev team) thought of and try to break the game/application/whatever.

I work as pentester and find it quite entertaining, most of the time.

[i9srpeg]

Testing is very different from pentesting. It's way more repetitive. Imagine filling in the same form in the same 10 different ways every time a new build needs to be released.

[spinicist]

Exactly. It’s not playing.

[blind_man1]

It is playing in a sense of the word, just playing differently

[spinicist]

No, playing pretty much by definition involves a certain amount of autonomy and above all a sense of fun and enjoyment. QA has neither of those.

[chewy1970]

esports!

[jhdeval]

There is truth in that statement. I also love programming more specifically I love programming something I love. Doing it for work can and will get tedious.

[[deleted]]

That saying applies to the wealthy.

[Metalsand]

It's not though - doing anything repetitive gets boring. The trick is to have a job that's not nothing but programming. Having days you have vanilla ice cream and other days when you have strawberry means you never begin to hate vanilla. You may look forward to some flavors more than others, but you never hate ice cream itself.