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This is why it's so important to mix with people from outside of your bubble. HN has some of the worst examples of people who don't know what they have. The discussions around salary are particularly amusing. I'm lucky because my partner is a nurse so I never forget how easy my job is. I also grew up in a poor family and I haven't forgotten what that was like. Honestly, if people would go and spend a long time in a country like India where people actually have it tough I'm sure they'd be a LOT happier.

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For me it's not that I don't feel lucky or enjoy my job in a general sense I guess. I just don't want to do the same thing over and over again my whole life. I started programming on a Commodore at like 6 or 7 years old and have basically never stopped now that I'm in my 40s.

Same here, my first programming was done on an Aquarius at around 8yo. The keyboard it had was awful, but I got to learn some BASIC. IT has been a huge part of my life since. While thankful for that path and what it has afforded my family, I've found it difficult lately to find meaning in it.

Isn't that what hobbies are for? Changing career seems like throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Same age, same concerns.

I was 8 when I started on a PcJr with BASIC.

I'm now in my 40s writing everything from Angular to C# APIs to database stored procedures.

Honestly, I've had enough and already suffered through one massive burnout that almost cost me my career.

I've been looking at what else I can do ... but I have no idea. And that scares me.

I can't see myself doing this in my 60s! And I'm not really the management type.

I feel like just patronizing other businesses and watching others work should provide enough perspective. Not having to deal with the general public is itself an amazing benefit.

There's a prolific poster on HN who I've noticed pops into COL discussions to insist that $300k a year is near poverty. Tim something, like clockwork. It's hilarious.

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