[HellDunkel]

I have worked as a software dev for about 10 years before i turned towards freelancing and slowly gravitated away from programming. I felt very much like you and tended to be rather annoyed by what and how things were done. Much later i was lucky to be able to work on a software project with just one other developer doing no coding myself but at all the things that i thought were not getting enough attention in previous projects. mainly: testing and design. Turns out this is the most exciting, appealing and usefull piece of software i ever contributed to and although i wrote very little code i am super proud of it. The codebase is quite ok, not too big (150k), not too clean. But the fact that this thing just WORKS and is FAST is extremely rewarding. So for me the best thing to do was step aside and try approach things from a different angle.