[formula1]

I really appreciate posts like these. Alot of posts that get popular on hacker news are about the struggle between management/developers and the best practice for success. This on the other hand is far more relatable to me. I am a developer that gets burnt out on jobs quickly and don't have a mentor I can look up to. A post like this gives me actions/patterns/history of someone that is still working and still wants to work in the industry like I do. Thank you for posting this!

[LaFolle]

Agree. Virtually there are many people whom you can look up to, Linus Torvalds, Brian Kernighan so on and so forth, but having a mentor with whom you can talk face to face is something I really cherish. This post is like that mentor telling you what to do and what not.

[CuriouslyC]

I don't know if this will help you, but in my case the only times I've ever felt like I was heading for burnout were when I was when I was writing fairly mundane code under time constraints. If you can move into a job role where you spend more time learning and solving problems than coding everything will get a lot better.

[formula1]

I appreciate the post but I would have to argue that 'looking for a job where I learn / solve problems' Is basically every job I'm at. I always search for a way to do it better than before but I am almost always alone. What I appreciated about what he was saying is that he was not always successful, nor did he stay in the same field (which many people told me I need to specialize). Granted he is probably leagues ahead of me, this makes me believe that my experience is not a unique one which I appreciate.