Been programming over 30 years, since I was 8 years old and my dad’s coworker gave me his old BASIC programming books and I was hooked.
I have always found programming easy, and still do. It is just fun, and I still love learning new languages and tools and paradigms. It is still my favorite hobby.
However, WORK is hard. Dealing with office politics and changing priorities and bad leadership and meetings and TPS reports and JIRA tickets and new HR processes every year and mergers and acquisitions and new mandates to switch everything to a different system and all the other corporate bullshit is why they have to pay me so much.
I have always found programming easy, and still do. It is just fun, and I still love learning new languages and tools and paradigms. It is still my favorite hobby.
However, WORK is hard. Dealing with office politics and changing priorities and bad leadership and meetings and TPS reports and JIRA tickets and new HR processes every year and mergers and acquisitions and new mandates to switch everything to a different system and all the other corporate bullshit is why they have to pay me so much.