this post was submitted on 21 May 2025
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I enjoy writing software, but...

I'm sick of making yet another fucking CRM.

I'm sick of trying to keep data synced between seven different third-party services.

I'm sick of trying to pull everything in the database into a single fucking dashboard.

I'm sick of trying to stay within a budget that's based on some wild-ass guesstimates made by someone who quit over a year ago.

I'm sick of creating things that will only ever be seen by a couple people in some random companies, and will be enjoyed by nobody.

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[–] iii@mander.xyz 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It sucks when your hobby becomes your work. Cause then you learn to dislike it. Leaving nowhere for that burstling creativity to go to.

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

That's why when I get home in the evening I just stare at a wall. No way to hate your hobbies if you don't have any.

Makes my job as watcher of the wall unbearable though

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

If you want fulfilling work, join or start an open source project you're passionate about

If you want money, grind Leetcode and go to a better company

But it sounds like you're stuck between those two and yup it sucks

[–] ApexHunter@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

You know what I'm not sick of though? My paycheck.

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used to be a real computer guy. Then I started working in IT. Now I don't really do much with the things anymore.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Same field. I like building gaming rigs and gaming. That's my IT outside of the job. Sadly you really only build once or upgrade every so often. Then you're working on your family's shit lol

[–] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m sick of being tasked with 5 different types of programmers jobs

In the past month alone I’ve worked on:

  • A web scrapping program to compile realtors information in a state I don’t live in, their properties sold and the values of those properties in the mls database. 1000s of web pages

  • a react native mobile apps backend transition from mongdb and express to a google cloud platform and firestorm database

  • a stencil.js website for a company that sells soaps and essential oils, as well as manage the backend changes because of arbitrary tariff price increases

  • a Python data pipeline to sync various name brand companies inventories with a shoddy sku management system

  • tax and shipping costs module integrations

Bro what is happening out here, I work for one company

[–] Uli@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's why I work in DevOps. Pre-defined scope.

[–] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We don't even have devops people. The developers are tasked with all of that too.

[–] Uli@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

I see why you're ExtraMedicated.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

I feel seen

Was it fun the first 10 times. It sounds fun. Wondering if it actually was.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I feel you, but this work pays relatively well. If the work wasn't a bit soul destroying it would pay quite a bit less.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I enjoyed web development until I had to move to VueJs..

[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As someone that likes Vue a lot, I'm curious what you dislike? The migration from v2 to v3 was definitely botched, but vue3 with vite is a solid developer experience.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

I came from years of jQuery and the mind shift to VueJS was just too much for me. Our team decided to use it almost on a whim. A major version of VueJS was released before we’d released our product, which meant we had to go back and rework things. So all in all it didn’t sit well with me.

[–] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I actually liked using Vue, but then, before that I was using pretty much just jquery, so, yeah.

I hate jquery because there's vanilla js, but then I hate how much more useful jquery is over vanilla js. Also, I hate JS, but what I hate most, is that I have to continue to use it for frontend.