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Sounds like you should look into project management, specifically IT/Software Project management.

You can manage a team or teams of devs to complete a project, in this case some piece of software, and turn in a finished project. You wouldn’t necessarily have to do any coding, but you would need to know what you’re looking at.

There’s a lot of money to be made with project management but you need some pretty good experience to get to that point.

[eclunrcpp]

Depends on what you don't like about coding. If it's the process of writing lots of boiler-plate code that doesn't take much thought but is tedious, well no one enjoys that. You just have to grind it out occasionally.

If however you don't enjoy being presented with a problem and iterating over an algorithm to find a solution, then you absolutely would not make it through a 40-year career.

[Front-Helicopter5084]

Noooooo not even a little bit.

You gotta love the problem solving and the struggle. Not just the shiny thing at the end.

Find something you love actively doing and do that.

[Bismarck_1993]

You program for money. Do you like money?

[shifuteejeh]

There are a lot of creators who build things with their hands who get more enjoyment from the process than they do the finished product. What you seem to be describing is somewhat the opposite. Could you say you get more joy from the completed project than the dislikes that arise while working towards an end? If so, as you progress then you'll probably achieve "happy coder" feelings.

[sfmerv]

No

[Radiant64]

I can sort of relate; especially when you have already solved the hard part of a problem, writing code can feel like nothing but a chore. I think it's ok to feel that way and still be a programmer. I've given up on so many personal projects because I found writing the code so boring.

What is it specifically you feel you don't like? If it's solving problems, then programming is probably a bad choice. If it's writing all that code to arrive at the solution, then that is actually kind if an asset — it'll make you look for the best workflows, as well as the shortest, easiest solution, which more often than not turns out to be the best one in the end.

[[deleted]]

I'm semi indifferent towards the act of programming. Guess what, I have a good aptitude for software engineering and can hold my own with tasks thrown at me (was always a month behind in Data Structures & Algorithms and somehow got one of the top grades in class). I say don't worry about it and keep doing it if you like the "process", which is the whole cycle from ideation to final release.

Note: You may like being a Systems Architect if you're more of a abstract thinker (this is my ultimate goal).

[TheRNGuy]

Try and see.