Programmers, STOP Burning Out 

I ended up programming because it was the vehicle to get the result I wanted, the computer is a tool to make cool stuff you enjoy

43 year old programmer...my advice would also be to have a hobby that doesn't involve code - I enjoy fixing things around the house and woodworking. There's something innately satisfying about being able to look at your work in a physical manner. Even if this is building PC towers, making your home office cool, whatever. Make sure your physical world doesn't suffer because of an obsession with a digital world.

I started programming because it is fun to order to computer around and to make fun games for people

I feel like college is a big culprit of why many people dislike coding or quit. For me, the first 2 years were almost unbearable because they only wanted i us to work on un realistic problems or shove algorithm questions down our throats. It almost made me quit until we started building actual applications. Web apps made everything come full circle for me. I highly suggest anyone to build apps you’ve found yourself in a rut

I started out programming because I loved solving mathematical and logical problems. I remember making cool games in Python.

Back in my senior highschool days I got interested in tech in general. Started jailbreaking consoles and openlining phones for myself and my friends. I did some basic web dev like html and css during that time and I loved it. I decided to pursue computer engineering in college and when I got out I don’t want to even do any programming anymore. I lost my passion because all it gave me was pure stress. Now I’m looking for other fields that don’t give as much stress as programming.

I'm tired dawg. I feel I'm not even getting anywhere. I'm tired

I'm programming for 25 years now. Still to this day I have no problem losing endless hours on some programming problems that are fun for me. I wanted to know how cheats, hacking and game dev work. I went deep into the rabbit hole at a very young age and my father is a programmer to gave me quick answers that otherwise at that time (without the internet or barely a working internet) hard to get. One of the first things I was really proud of was a raytracer writtern by a minor and understanding all the math involved. I learned through fun and tried to grasp most important concepts with small PoC programms that were fun for me. You learn about let's say SQL, maybe write a small ORM Mapper or even a small Database with an interpreter. Even if it doesn't work correctly you will learn a ton. Maybe a bad example. I like the video a lot, because often people lose passion or didn't have a chance to develop it. Because the grind is hard and strange if you do it without fun. In the professional field there are programmers, who have a huge knowledge base but no experience. I usually in interviews can tell if you learned it from the book or if you experienced it. Enjoy the journey, you will eventually become good if you love it and learn your craft properly instead of grinding for an exam or so. Also I see alot of younger people compare themselfs with myself for example, which I have to say "don't". I do this for 25 years, you can't expect to reach that level in a couple of month. Also Programming evolves alot and fast. Programming 20 years ago looked very different than it does today. Back then we had todo more by hand, which lead to more fuckups, but also teached us way more. Today you have too many options and often too many information and also too much bad information. The amount of garbage I read in stackoverflow, which has the most upvotes is insane. Also because you can today literlly build an application without having any knowledge about memory management and CPU caches and so on, people knowadays don't know that stuff. Which often leads to having huge gaps in their fundamental knowledge. If you know what your code does down to the hardware level than there isn't much that you won't understand at least on a code level. I talk to much, just my 2 cents. I have more but this is already getting to long. TL;DR Great video, enjoy the journey! It's a long journey but for me an awesome one!

One of my professor said before that "the perfect job is were you doing your hobby and getting paid for it", hits me so good that I'd only take classes were i think I'll have fun and learn aswell

True ! But hears something more ... Like , even if you love coding so much , it can be sometimes over whelming and can demotivate you , simply because you really need to use your brain (for beginners) but despite of all this , i myself love coding even if it is hard sometimes like doing crazy stuff like creating 15 dimensional array and and think in very complex way !

I'm suffering burnout as a newbie. I don't enjoy it anymore. Everytime I read other peoples codes, I get confused

I want to enter the coding mainly because of money and it interest me. Aside from that I think programming makes tasks much more efficient.

I used to loving coding, and was excited when I made a programming using for loop from jurrasic park scene, but now I am burnout because there are too many frameworks, api and libraries and figuring out dependencies etc. And constant updates making tutorial outdated and does not work which you are following.

I needed this

Watching this while feeling burnt out. We just went live with a product I wrote for about two years. Taking a vacation here in a few months.

Because it pays well, doesn’t have to enjoy it, it’s called a job for a reason

I love your content, you don’t understand how much you’ve helped me out! You are a fantastic teacher, I too genuinely love to code and am desperately trying to acquire a job in software development. It’s especially hard right now with all the experienced people being laid off by all the tech giants.

I don't know why but when I search any thing the first video is tech with tim He is just a perfect RU-vidr to me +1 sub

Thank you so much! It’s very inspiring!!❤❤

I kind of looking to code to fix all my problems, but like everything in life, so far I've bitten off more than I Cann chew... but I still want to do those projects, it would be nice if I could snap my fingers and just get it like I did with CAD when I was 9 :/

You like me, I picked a project I enjoy and I have worked on it for over two years without getting bored but yet learning more. It's a scripting language called land-of.

I am doing programming coz I am not having any other option, situations are not same for all 😒

This is good advice that I need to practice more

And you absorbed the information easily when you enjoy learning.

Thank you!!

fun stuff can be portfolio projects too

For me the burnout isn’t caused by coding something I like. It’s more like a time pressure thing. It feels like every time I barely finish a little game for let’s say politics class, suddenly we are doing a creative task in English, for which I choose the option to develop another game, which is fun in the beginning but then just feels like a stressful job (especially when I didn’t futureproof and need to rewrite horrendous amounts of code)

At uni ATM for programming, Ive got three subjects that are super boring and one subject that is a lot of fun.

I love to play video games, eat chips sitting on coach all day.. i genuinely enjoy it.. is it valid?

Spot on!

I get so irritated when I see nft people say programming is a quick way to make money and be a millionaire

the reason that propels me toward programming was jealous, I was randomly scrolling yt shorts then a found a video creating a script for automations like deleting unused files etc, then I got started on python because it is the best language for beginners. then after finishing my first project I am proud of myself. since then cant stop doing it

When I was younger. Mate you still have a lifetime ahead of you. But keep doing what you are doing, you really seem passionate about it.

while i do appreaciate that you tried to help. some people are not allowed to do what they like. i like programming in general but my college push me to do what i dont like about that programming.

Do people actually struggle on something they want to show off? Aren't they supposed to be correlated

Totally agree

I do it for fun AND to show off to my friends, so it’s a win-win for me 😅

Thanks bro for the enlightenment love your advice

Theoretical cs is actually great fun imo.

That's true. You must be enjoying what you do

Love you 💕

That's true. Most of my programming is done in java for Minecraft, usually plugins for my minecraft server where I play with my friends. Doing this made me learn a LOT. and I'm happy too, that somewhere in the future when I will grow up I will be able to get a decent job without too much effort. But this is just a nice fact, I don't care too much. I'm programming because I love to do it, and as Tim say this is what you should do. If you are forcing to do boring stuff that you don't like stop, and find something you enjoy. :)

i agree. the only reason im getting into it now is because i want to make a comedy talk show set as i draw it out and program it so that all the animations on the set including the drawn guest and camera close up angles and shots can be programmed into button on my keyboard and i learn to puppeteer the show with me as host talking to my guests. what would be the best route to create this show set? learning a programming language or learning Unity and some C#? let me know im a beginner in Java programming.

passion doesn't pay the bills do whatever it takes to get the job remember if it's easy & fun everybody doing it.

Exactly what I have doing Today I finished my chat GPT app for PC that cracks the API for your GPT account and allows you to use system prompts and images if you have plus at LinkedIn account

I remember that I started learning code with bash and I made this little program that has the Google Chrome icon in the desktop and when you click on it, the cmd appears and ask for a password before opening chrome. Sadly I didn't thought about edge cases like looking for chrome on the search.

Because you start early, most of us especially me just 'exposed' and decide to take career path as programmers, so I tend to think "how can i become job ready as fast as possible"

Attach the enjoyment to the process or it just isn't going to work. That goes for literally anything. Studying, exercise, ect.

It is totally okay to enjoy writing Print ("Hello World")😂😂😂

agree

I hate this job but it is what it is.. this is tool that I only have ..to get out the system

Grinding young is important. Because you don't forgot the hard stuff you learn at that age, and then when you're 19 you show up and crush. As you get more experience, you see all the connections in the apparently disparate things you learned cold in your youth.

Just one problem. Work is work. What you like is what you like. I don’t like leetcode problems but I don’t have any choice. All the companies they just gave the leetcode problems for interviews

In my opinion it does not matter what we do, most people can enjoy anything even things they can't imagine they would enjoy. The important thing is getting better and having appropriate challenge. That's why I plan how I will get better and how I will enjoy stuff. If certain conditions are met incredible amount of things can be enjoyable. Cal Newport describes it amazingly in his book "So good they can't ignore you". It worked for me, saved some time and made my work much more enjoyable. I hope it helps some of you too. :)

What font did you use on subtitles?

I ams stuck for a half of day to solve my coding issue a while back, but when I discovered how very simple the solution is, I just laughed at my self how idiot I was. If you wonder what it is, it is basically why npm init is not working anymore to ready the directory for Bootstrap 5. JUST TYPE npm install bootstrap 🤦‍♂️

Answer: Kids and bills, and at the fork of learning the trades and CS, you chose the latter.

I recommend to only do more fun code things. I swear. Keep coding things you actually like.

The sad truth I’m starting to realize is that very few of us programmers truly love it. Most people are in it for something else.

which CS topics did you find most hard?

What makes you think you are good?

Java back-end developer or phython backend developer??

dont tell me what to do. imma burn if i want

💯💯

What is the point? Money. Moneys the point.

If I wanted to read I'd get a book.

Based

Beacuse money = money

I'm currently programming my own terminal in python and im having alot of fun coding it!

Oh i code to show off...dont get it twisted

I hated all my jobs. They've mostly been manual labor and outside. I just want to sit in heated or cooled room preferably remote and complain about my 🍑hurting or my hands cramping

I'm a 13 year old and I have almost 2 yr experience in programming and honestly, i love your vids and projects and have fun in making some of them. But not doing something like binary tree and that all.

Burn out? you wanna be a programmer or not

choose game programmer :)

Best thing I've watched today

Isn't it a dream come true? To work for what you hate to get the money to do what you love.

If you do not get a proper education you have no idea how to solve programming tasks at a proper level of abstraction. 99% that you hardcode everything which greatly increases the amount of your work you cannot complete during regular working hours. That means you work for free, and the free work burns you out. Programming means making less work for everyone, not more for yourself. If you do not get this concept, look for other career options.

3rd world developers in a nut shell.

The quality of life for the average person barely goes up after 70k a year unless you have multiple people relying on you for financial support dont be doing work you hate for 120k if you can do something you love for 70k

Im 13 years old, I code since I was 11. I got to it because I love it. Even though some topics are less fun, they can help you make more fun things.

Implemented a bipolar associative memory neural network in 1993 for the everliving geek factor of it...

I started programming for a high paying career but now I just love it.

Thing is,true.. Last September i tried your python 1 project tutorial(simple game) & i broje easily by simple indentation error.. these happe. Cause predsure to get job,poor health/family support & lack of mentorship,guidance With right guidance means actually teaching like old sibling,friendly mentor for younger ones than simply sspilling tips won't helpful without experienced knowledge to rven understand(opinions differ as you experience) and simply brainwashed stuff to be muck up 😅 Wish you all well 😃🌟✨🙌 (74th comment,5.4+ k liles,78,984 view) 05.04.2023 04:53 pm ist

Programming is a way to live comfortably not a passion cut the bs.