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Unfortunately I've found myself at a ceiling as far as learning, or at least self learning goes at the moment. Not sure if this ceiling is due or intelligence, or any number of correctable issues, but I'd have a hard to interviewing let alone landing anything not very close to what I do now. Don't have particularly good fundamental either, and see the first sentence for why that's an issue.

> Not sure if this is talking about your side project or generally, if it's general, then it kind of does not bode well for a career in software engineering.

Side projects for sure. In general it's harder to tell since I don't actually have to write too much code in my current role.

> Money isn't a huge concern in the long term, but time and opportunity costs are a bad thing?

It's a balance, I'd say. At the moment, I'd willingly sacrifice some years of my life and potential earning power, but as time goes on, less so. If I were somewhat older, or even more older, I wouldn't do that at all. Don't want to be a junior for the majority of my career or risk not ever being able to retire. I'd think there's a difference between restarting at say 30 versus 40.

> You like certain areas of software dev better, but you aren't bringing yourself to writing code?

I wish I could explain this one, to be honest. As far as software development goes, my interests come and go very quickly, in a month, I may abandon what I'm interest in now. I'm actually recently off one of those cycles, during which I had intense interest, and many designs, but ultimately nothing to show for it.

Basically: I feel really stuck, I’ve identified a couple paths out, but they both require me to remain stuck for longer than I think I can take, one is more appealing, but is expensive in time and money, the other is less appealing, less likely to be achieved, but may come with a quicker and bigger payout. Any ideas on what I should do?