[mreiland]

What are you doing that it's keeping your interest?

I sometimes find myself getting tired of technology and while I love software development, I often think about not doing it anymore. After a while it gets old constantly dealing with other people's decisions.

An easy example is working with Powershell Remoting can be a nightmare if you're not intimately familiar with both Windows itself and Windows Remoting specifically. It's extremely hard to simply use it as a shell without so much deep knowledge, something I don't find to be the case on unix systems.

Absolutely not an attack on Windows, just a recent example I've come across where I don't want to have such a deep knowledge of Windows, but I'm forced to in order to deal with a tech that, in theory, should help me be productive without having such deep knowledge.

I have my days where I just get tired of it all. The day I realized IIS forces you to load DLL's in child applications because the parent loads a DLL (even though they can use separate app pools) is one example. I can't imagine why that's the default.

I find myself having to go home and work on things like homegrown emulators and the like just to keep up my love of technology.

[smtddr]

>>I sometimes find myself getting tired of technology and while I love software development, I often think about not doing it anymore. After a while it gets old constantly dealing with other people's decisions.

I feel like you have the beginnings of an entrepreneur here. You should start something that solves this problem you're seeing. The last 2 people I've heard make similar comments ended up starting their own tech-consulting firm. :)

1. "Hate it when X becomes Y and you actually just wanted Z"?

2. "Make an app or start a company that can assure people that X will become Z as quickly and painlessly as possible"

3. ??? (Something to do with YC).

4. "Become a millionaire"

[woah]

Sounds like you mostly have issues with Windows? If you were using open source software, you could use your considerable expertise to help improve the issues you've found.

[leonroy]

> I sometimes find myself getting tired of technology and while I love software development, I often think about not doing it anymore. After a while it gets old constantly dealing with other people's decisions.

I feel you here. I've been the go to sysadmin at every startup I've worked it. Whether it's Windows Servers, vSphere clusters, VLANs on HP or Cisco, it gets old doing the same thing at a different datacenter every couple of months. Especially when you have to learn some vendor specific crap that will almost NEVER be relevant to anything else outside that specific use case.

Thankfully I've been able to move (push? ;) my clients onto more open technologies like Linux, LXC, Openstack etc. all of which means the skills I learn doing this sysadmin stuff are at least tangentially relevant to my main job (unified comms development).

Ultimately like a lot of oldies here (myself included ;) working on the stuff you really want to do in your spare time is where you learn the cool stuff that helps you land the next great gig.