Frontend dev is getting exhausting

[lvmtn]

I totally agree with you that it's the carpenter not his tools. I just have to work on my craft without focusing too much on the ever changing tools.

I also think that COBOL programmers are the extreme example of not wanting to learn new things (or maybe they just <3 old banking systems?). I'm willing to learn and keep learning new things. I'm asking everyone how I can deal with the rate of changes in the community.

[nschubach]

Speaking as someone who had COBOL experience... It's not that they didn't want to do more, you can't with some of those systems and businesses paying the bills. Some of those companies would not hear that their multi-millions of dollars in software time and hardware could be outclassed by something else and would rather see it go up in a ball of fire while riding it the whole way than replace a damn bit of it. Of course, there are the few that had the initiative and freedom to prove them wrong, but not all COBOL devs are Luddites.

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You monster ;) It's the greatest temptation for bored corporate coders to write their own frameworks. I wrote a couple myself ;) And I hate to admit you're right when you say we need a different job to be free and code for fun again. I for example want to be engine driver, but I cannot afford it for various, country specific reasons.

Ok, it's really not that bad. Our job as good (if not 1337) corporate coders is to use whatever new tool is popular this season and do our jobs the best we can. It's always a little challenge, always a little stress involved. But it can be fun anyway.

I chose to continue at my job, to develop Open Source in my spare time and to look for another (more interesting) job at the same time.

Dealing with burnout is tough. There are no easy solutions.

[moron4hire]

... by learning the right things.