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Boring and empty inside...
That sounds like you don't enjoy working at all.
Either that or depression has crawled in and made itself comfy.
Questions would be: Do you *really* like your workplace? Do you *really* like working in IT?
Maybe it's not the software engineering position, rather your workplace.
Maybe it's the software engineering position, cause you are better suited for a more demanding thing / another work area (database, testing, management, ...)...
But all in all, when you're bored and describe things that sound like symptoms of depression - ask yourself what's really going on.
Usually stuff like this runs deeper, so maybe get a shovel and start digging.
Why/How you started, what makes your happy, what's not boring, etc.
While money and certain life style is a thing, not become a nutcase should be more important.
Have some 🥞.
when your code is a mess but everything work out in the end
When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.
Go big or go home.
What happens when you get bored of working as a software engineer?
3 years after starting my career as a dev, I'm already in the middle of a crisis, struggling to find motivations to stay in tech aside of the good salaries.
Don't get me wrong, I like solving problems trough code, designing complex solutions, I love software architecture. My problem goes around the jobs themselves, doing engineering for a living is just so boring, makes me feel so empty inside.
It is not the same doing something for someone else company than doing it for yours, I usually feel like I could be happier raising my own startup, immediately after that, I remember that I must stick around working for someone else if I want to put food on my table.
I have been thinking about quit and get a normal job, but money is a huge deal, i'm used to a lifestyle that is hard to backup without a salary like the ones of software engineers.
In short, I feel empty and hopeless. What are your toughs, are you going trough something similar?
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