I noticed it before I got into IT, but it seems to have gotten worse.
EDIT: Great comments guys, and thanks. I don’t feel so alone. :)
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Totally depends on the challenge of the project - and it follows a bell curve. Too easy and it’s annoying, too difficult (or takes too long) and it’s fucking aggravating. But those rare Goldilocks projects that are a challenge but shit just clicks along? Chefs kiss.
Pretty sure you’re describing most if not all the developer’s demographics, coding can always be optimized.
The same goes for a lot of things we do in life (Productivity).Inside you are two wolves.
One has Adhd and the other may be mildly autistic but it turns out they are working together and now its a situation
One by one my family is getting diagnosed autistic and ADHD. I have recently been diagnosed at 35 years old with ADHD. I figure it’s just a matter of time for the other shoe to drop.
There’s significant overlap between ADHD and Autism (also BPD). You could have just one, or all three. But, more important than nailing down precisely which you have, is finding treatments or techniques that help you function in a more effective way in your day to day life.
There’s a YouTube channel called How to ADHD that I highly recommend. She gives a lot of explainers about what ADHD looks like in real life, as well as techniques that she uses to help her.
She’s awesome! One of my favorites, actually. She did a thing called something like tell me you have ADHD without telling me you have it, and every comment was me. Made me go check. Just because you have one or two or all three, doesn’t mean you any less than someone who has none. All it means, is that you see the world differently and must adapt differently.
I’ll check her out, thanks!
I’m pretty sure this is just ADHD. And yes, I do have ADHD.
I mean that’s literally what it is from a psychological perspective. Your brain doesn’t reward you for the mere act of finishing a task, so it’s basically impossible to find motivation for it unless it ticks at least one box in your reward center.
I’m not a programmer, but I do have a job where every success proves a failure of the system. It’s draining.
Penetration tester?
Pssh I wish. That sounds like so much more fun than what I do.
Who maintains a to-do list? sees many hands
Who maintains a done list? sees no hands
If I had a nickel for everytime I heard “Stop starting, start finishing!” from upper management, I’d be as rich as them.
Blame modern Scrum/Agile and the ever tighter deadlines…
I have mainly worked in Scrum environments. Only now at my current position am I working outside Agile and I LOVE it.
What’s the process you’re using instead? Some form of waterfall?
The journey is the part that you remember anyways.
That is true. Kaylee - “I noticed you weren’t looking at destinations.” Shepherd Book - “'Cause how you get there is the more worthy part.”
It’s me, hi, I’m the problem it’s me.
This is definitely a neurodivergent trait and one of the reasons why so many self medicate with cannabis.
THC connects to the reward center of the brain and enhances those feeling.
It took me to trying weed as a youngadult to finally experience basic shit like feeling refreshed after a bath, accomplished after doing household tasks and even relaxed when sun bathing.
I cant really use anymore for legal reasons but cannabis thought me that living a healthier/productive life really adds to your happiness and the experience i had with jt left a mark that helps me recognize/identify those lessened motivational feelings when i do similar things now.
Man. I thought it was just me. I don’t know if I’m glad I’m not alone or upset that there are more suffering with me…
Lots of good advice in these comments. I hope they help you! Message me if they don’t.
Releasing open source projects has been the source of professional satisfaction to me. Just ignore people posting rude issues demanding you to work on something asap and instead do it at your own pace.
I’m a student. This has been my life since around October 2021.
Same when I was a student. I wrongly believed it was a student thing…It isn’t. It’s a mindset thing.
This is me. I am not exclusively IT but I am the unofficial IT department for my company (they don’t want to pay an actual IT guy). I feel this across my whole job though. Phew, got that done, what’s gonna happen next?
Careful they don’t abuse you. Make your job description solid and make sure if they want to go outside it, they should pay you more. You are worth it.
Probably they abuse me a bit. I know I’m good at my job but I get imposter syndrome in my head sometimes. $100k a year isn’t awful though. Sometimes I fantasize about dying and all the shit do and know and handle are lost and my coworkers can’t figure shit out.
My last position had this problem. ‘Silo’s of knowledge’. We had a guy who could have retired yesterday who had so much institutional knowledge that when he left people were in such disarray. He was all, “I warned ya! You should have had me training people!”
But no one wants to learn anything beyond their tunnel vision job title.
You’d be surprised how many people have the drive and motivation to learn other things than their job.
I feel this with anything but any personal projects, and I think that’s more because those are just for fun. But when finishing IT stuff and projects for classes I definitely just feel glad that it’s done and over with.
In a perfect world, we’d all work on only personal projects.
