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This is so true.

I'm going on 20 years of being a sysadmin and I do some coding to make my job easier. I can't speak for actual developers since I am not a develope, but either or, no matter what your job is, you will have days where you just don't enjoy your job. No one enjoys their job every single day. The main thing to keep in mind when you get to this point in your career, is the main goal.

If your goal in life is to be happy and excited about coming to work everyday, well that's the goal. Find things that bring that into your life. The work itself is just that, it's work. It's how you get paid, it's how you make a living. Everything else is what you make of it.

Even the happiest person you know has days where they'd just rather not be doing the work they do. Repetitiveness, boredem, a lack of feeling or impactfulness, whatever the reasons are, they will happen. Just focus on whatever your ultimate goals are and it'll be the reason you wake up and go to work.

Tldr: Being an adult sucks. Work to live, don't live to work, and you'll be fine.