gorf68

Yes, I got burned out as well. But now I've been learning new methodologies again. Because you simply have to do it this way now. Through the full and part time commercial programming rolls I've had iv'e been doing this stuff since around 1995. And I know the new best methodologies will go like the rest and be replaced by a new, new 'best method' and that's probably the thing that put me off the most. I think it depends on what you are programming, which is probably why I started programming in assembly for a 1980s console as a hobby!

Well they have 10 years on me, but I see it happening a lot now. I don't work for a particularly large or small company, just now, but we do have locations all around the globe, and covid is starting to bite. Causing some weird decisions. I've been told i'm 'safe' but I see a lot of people going around me. It's strange days!

I've held a range of positions before I just sort of fell into full time  programming, which I then did for over 10 years.

I've been a Technician, Network Engineer, and Systems Admin amongst others. So I started my current roll as a sort of general IT development resource come consultant, with some third level support thrown in.

This mostly involved patching up legacy code and databases, as well as making some smaller new programs, mostly API stuff. Until the department changed somewhat and I found myself heavily involved with programming projects, mostly C# stuff.

I pretty much want to do what I started out doing in this job!

I still do a bit of that, so maybe I will swing back to that again.