[culopatin]

Learn something new in your free time. Use that to change jobs.

That’s the only fix I see. Learning something new is always exciting, even if you don’t think it is fun, and it allows you to sell more capabilities and expand the range of jobs you could apply for.

I’m in the same situation. Bored with IT. I want to do software dev. I’ve been working on a personal project and applying to jobs. It’s brutal to change industries with no experience, but I’m not giving up.

[boredaway]

I am definitely trying, but it's just very very hard to have the motiviation.

Trying a bit of cooking and chess (so not related to software dev) and although I enjoy it, I have a hard time remembering stuff (e.g. chess openings).

Same for software dev stuff (e.g. reading Designing Data Intensive applications, which is great and interesting, but having a hard time reading more than 2 or 3 pages before drifting off)

Thanks for the advice though. Definitely looking to keep pushing in that front.

[culopatin]

You need a project. I also couldn’t just read stuff to “maybe use later”. It is very frustrating.

I have since started a Spring framework project because I see Java postings at my company left and right and although I may not understand everything going into it, it all kind of explains itself as I work with it. If I were to read a Spring framework book, I’d be lost if i didn’t have a platform to play with.

I found what to do as a project through my girlfriend. She’s in molecular cell biology and we identified a problem that affects the community of phycologists and I started working on a tool that I think should help a lot and might land me a paper.

I’m not going to lie, it gets frustrating sometimes. I have no mentor or any friends in software to help me out when I’m confused and I have to take a few days away from it to let my brain relax and try again later.

I built it to the point of “well ok! Looks like it kinda works!” And then I realized that what I had built would be a problem down the road.So here I am refactoring the core of the app because “this MAY be an issue in the future let’s just fix it now”. And I got stuck a bit. There is nothing I want more than publish this thing and have something to show to employers.

[RonaldOlzheim]

I also couldn’t just read stuff to “maybe use later”. It is very frustrating. --> basicly me

´I have since started a Spring framework project because I see Java postings at my company left and right and although I may not understand everything going into it´ -->Can you send me the link through linkedin?

Note: I have been thinking of a tool and i´m trying to put the right pieces of added value together.

The problem: The encoding and decoding is more but not less. Meaning: time is valueble --> I want to build a framework to work smarter, more linked and much faster.

The solution I did some thinking and i would like to talk to you about it. Ronald Olzheim.