How do you stay happy, content?

I don't

Me neither

Made the code worse than it was pre-refactor. Sigh

Wtf is being present in the moment?

Chocolate.

@aviophile Blanking your mind and focusing on your senses, feeling your environment. I guess.

Literally the only time I feel good at the moment is when I've got enough alcohol intus. Still, only a temporary solution to a permanent problem.

I don't know about you, but if I was always happy/content I would probably never improve.

So instead I'd say the question is how do you get happy/content in the first place. To which Id say: follow the Maslow pyramid, and try to do anything you can to fill each step to the best of your abillities from bottom up.

You will never be truly happy all the time, but you can get to the happy spot easier once you have all of those steps filled sufficiently.

Talk to myself in my head

Weed and parrots (don't mix the two, you'll end up with just one of those things).

I read devrant posts about my fellow devs shitty experiences, and realise that my own life is not so bad!

I meditate and work on self-development.. maybe read a book and take some small courses, and try to exercise whenever I can

by clapping them cheeks

Love.

Happiness is a decision, so is being content. I’m always happy because I decide to be, and never content because if I were, I’d never improve. Simple as that.

@100110111 Sounds like some hippy shit but it's true

By not thinking about it.

Compartmentalization.

try to see something positive in every day and after a while you kinda train your brain with this to see something positive everywhere?

It was recommended to me to get a notebook, in which I would write down something nice that happened that day, every day. It can be super small like, "the weather was nice" or "I had a nice coffee". And because you do this on a regular basis you train your brain into being more overall positive.

On the other hand, I thought that once i have my masters I would feel like a weight got lifted of my shoulders. well, that didn't happen. At all. Which makes me sad...

Stop giving a F on things that I cannot control

talking with SO about the shits happen at work helps a lot also

Exercising, getting drunk and watching Cookie Monster clips while drunk

Moved to a sketchy beach resort.

@d-fanelli star answer