Remember when you first discovered programming? When you did all those little projects that were, honestly, fairly useless, but brought you the spine-tingling sensation of having power over your domain?
Remember how when you started programming professionally, and you quit those projects? Why did that need to happen?
Bravo Lindsey, never stop making cool things.
(YMMV. I'm assuming of course that you learned programming as a hobby--if you learned by taking a college course then gasp you might have skipped the pointless-project phase entirely. I suggest you get on top of that.)
> Remember how when you started programming professionally, and you quit those projects? Why did that need to happen?
It didn't, I now get to spend 8+ hours a day working on things that matter, things that get me paid, thinks that make my customers (and their customers) happy, things that I see people use daily on their phone on my way to my next assignment.
Just because I work for a boss - and no, not some cool startup in the Valley - doesn't mean I don't do cool projects anymore.
(My pointless project phase was amongst others a scraper for InvisionFree forums, they would charge hundreds of dollars to get a copy of the database of a <50.000 post forum - and ours was over half a million posts big)
Remember when you first discovered programming? When you did all those little projects that were, honestly, fairly useless, but brought you the spine-tingling sensation of having power over your domain?
Remember how when you started programming professionally, and you quit those projects? Why did that need to happen?
Bravo Lindsey, never stop making cool things.
(YMMV. I'm assuming of course that you learned programming as a hobby--if you learned by taking a college course then gasp you might have skipped the pointless-project phase entirely. I suggest you get on top of that.)