Ask HN: How do I find meaningful things to work on if programming is a hobby?
I studied a business degree but taught myself Ruby at some point. I loved it so much that at some point I joined a company and became a full-time Rails developer, but because of my background, I moved into a product owner (customer-facing) role after a year.
Currently, I'm working as a scrum master at a different company in a different country. While I enjoy this, I get this crazy and fleeting desire about once a month to just jump back into full-time development. When I then seriously consider this, my partner tells me to just do it as a hobby (which is sound advice for a variety of reasons).
The problem with "just programming as a hobby" is that I lack a good goal (I'm not the kind of person who can't just program for the sake of programming - I want to actually make something).
So, how do I find meaningful things to work on if programming is a hobby?
Currently, I'm working as a scrum master at a different company in a different country. While I enjoy this, I get this crazy and fleeting desire about once a month to just jump back into full-time development. When I then seriously consider this, my partner tells me to just do it as a hobby (which is sound advice for a variety of reasons).
The problem with "just programming as a hobby" is that I lack a good goal (I'm not the kind of person who can't just program for the sake of programming - I want to actually make something).
So, how do I find meaningful things to work on if programming is a hobby?