Recently I have begun wondering whether going into development was the wrong idea. I’ve only been developing for 2 years now so I’m still getting into it. I have been second guessing myself and all my recent decisions, which is actually so stupid. I recently got one of “those” emails that the ladies send around everyday about how life is in your control, blah blah blah.

For some unknown reason I decided to actually go through one of these powerpoint presentations. Basically it came down to two things.

1) Enjoy Life and its challenges
2) Be grumpy and stressed for the rest of your life

Now generally I would just hit the delete key as I always do when something hit me. When are we as developers really happy in our work? When we’re under pressure and we find some amazing way of doing something. We then go home with this ultimate feeling of having done something amazing! Thats what I’ve been lacking!!! Why though?

I have become complacent in my day to day work. I am currently maintaing VB6 code and writing and doing anything new in C#. Once we get the time we are going to redesign 3 apps into 1. But because that isn’t now I haven’t been experimenting with things the way I used to and I think thats where my boredom is fitting in. I am finally in a position I wanted to be in for a while. I live close to work and have very little stress so now I should be at my most productive! Watch this space people.

For anyone else bored at their job, think about why you joined there and why you origianlly enjoyed your job! Once you get back to the basics of what it is you love then it suddenly becomes so much better!

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