gorf68

I've been programming games for 35 years, no way I would want to do anything else.

I got burned out by modern coding being no fun, compared to the low level fun things with flight simulators and robotics I used to do. Everyone started wanting web developers and whatever trendy things. I lasted a while at companies handling their legacy systems, but those dried up too.

I ended up getting certified in CNC Machining. I get to code still, and make badass physical things, from a cutter at 5000 RPM rending pieces of metals at 30 rockwell for Aerospace. Though my father has been a machinist for 40 years so I may be a bit biased as well.

It pays well and there is a need for machinists. Plus it beats the hell out of sitting at a desk, you get fit pretty quick.

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!