Do you think coding is boring and stressful?

Coding looks boring and stressful.

  • Yes it is boring and stressful

    Votes: 21 38.9%

  • No

    Votes: 33 61.1%
  • Total voters
    54
nuclearrap

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Tried too many things so far in life:
drawing, designing, writing, coding, marketing, exercising, swimming, making music and beats etc.

But coding was the most stressful and boring one, even though I enjoy it so much from time to time, it makes me frustrate and stressful a lot especially when bugs and cronical errors occur, and you try to fix it for hours and even for days. And you always have to learn new things to catch the trends and not become obsolete.
 
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nah, ime it only gets stressful when i switch from ruby to php for a while and forget that prehistoric languages require semicolon
 
yeah coding is stressful because you wanna keep adding things as new ideas come in, it's like a never ending loop where you get nowhere, and it's worst if it isn't making you money.
 
coding is not for me...

I am absolutely bored every time I try it...

Some techy guys love it and are excellent at it...

Definitely not the fish, my personality is better for communication/marketing/sales, but everyone is different.

At the end, it's a matter of finding what your interests are and what you are good at as soon as possible in life.

It took me a while to accept I hated coding and would never be great at it :)
 
nuclearrap said:
Tried too many things so far in life:
drawing, designing, writing, coding, marketing, exercising, swimming, making music and beats etc.

But coding was the most stressful and boring one, even though I enjoy it so much from time to time, it makes me frustrate and stressful a lot especially when bugs and cronical errors occur, and you try to fix it for hours and even for days. And you always have to learn new things to catch the trends and not become obsolete.
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Last year I purchased a 6 week Python class with live instructor. I’m a creative writer with a couple wordpress sites who fell into game writing last year. I wanted to be able to code an entire game not just write it.
I failed miserably. They even gave me my money back!
I’m a super fast learner but have never encountered anything so dreadfully stressful and impossible to learn.
I just could not understand it- I guess my brain has to justify the before and after and simply could not grasp the “pattern” of coding.
 
SemioticVoyager said:
Last year I purchased a 6 week Python class with live instructor. I’m a creative writer with a couple wordpress sites who fell into game writing last year. I wanted to be able to code an entire game not just write it.
I failed miserably. They even gave me my money back!
I’m a super fast learner but have never encountered anything so dreadfully stressful and impossible to learn.
I just could not understand it- I guess my brain has to justify the before and after and simply could not grasp the “pattern” of coding.
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Maybe you are better in architectural design then :)
 
I've been working as a coding freelancer for almost 10 years now. It never gets old.

Yet, it can get boring. But everything in life is/will be.

My main occupation is designing/coding scrapers, so it's always something new out there that a client wants. After a few years, foundation code that you use everyday gets into your head that you just type away, boring or not.

Yes, finding bugs is awful, and time-consuming. But you get paid for that time. Or adjust your price taking that under consideration.

It can get ugly when you take on $30-$40 jobs, and end up spending more than half a day because of a weird glitch.

It can also get boring if you work alone. I did/still do for the vast majority. But I've also worked for a company in the U.K. which required me to work with a team. It changes things a lot.

If the job doesn't motivate you, just do it anyway if you need to pay the bills. If you're doing it for fun, and it still gets boring, yeah, just move alone.

I would love to be a professional investor, and make $10,000/week with swing trading. But unfortunately, I have yet to master that skill.

My point is, don't try to find meaning and purpose with every job you have. It's not a piece of furniture where even the fine details matter. Code wither works or don't. If it works, you get the paycheck. Boring, or not.
 
RoiBox said:
Agree, I´m still searching for my personality, but it is the search that is fun .. =)
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really?

I think you should be a comedian.

Your fish jokes are top notch.
 
No but I think its dangerous the way it quickly changes your brain structure and the way you think to be more logical and linear. Not bad but sometimes it can be.
 
RoiBox said:
Really, you know anyone paying for a soon to be 55+ old farts nasty/naughty/fishy remarks?
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Yes ...

Me, @RushingWind and @Gogol we would be the first ones to pay for your show.

The more I think about it the more I would see you stand up comedy.

I can join you and we do shows together in fact.

"The fish in a box show" how does that feel ? Huh? feels great to think about it :eek:
 
RoiBox said:
I like the box thingy, you been raised well, she deserves more flowers.
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Why are you so cute and friendly all the time!

I want to hug and kiss you, don't know why... You make me feel like that!

Stop it!
 
It's something I've always planned to start but never got to start. Although I deal with things like Wordpress and ads, I try myself from time to time. But for me, no matter how annoying the coding is, seeing the result and running it is enough for me to ignore all the problems. No matter how much you love a job, you cannot change your character according to that job.
 
Boring for many, cool for some.

I think coding is slowly turning to no-code solutions mostly. But ofc there will always be some top engineers who know the nitty gritty, although probably everybody will be able to code simple stuff.

I tried that gpt-3 coding assistant beta and you just give it instructions in English and it writes code for you. I'm not a coder but the results were fine for simple instructions.

When I need to code a simple script I just look it up on google, use python cause it's readable like English.

Most scripts you can imagine are already there, you just have to copy paste them from stackoverflow without knowing how to code yourself.

Or just search GitHub, a lot of great scripts built by good programmers that are almost plug and play, you just need to run a few commands written in the readme file.

And if you want to build software or something more complex you can use something like bubble, which is no-code. But this is probably overkill for us on this forum where we just need a script here and there.
 
I like to code when i know what im doing. Its kind of relaxing to just type type type, debug and see things work. But i get stressed when learning something from the scretch. because i spend most time searching, asking myself if im even searching for the right thing. i guess only time will fix this :D

blogmen said:
I think coding is slowly turning to no-code solutions mostly. But ofc there will always be some top engineers who know the nitty gritty, although probably everybody will be able to code simple stuff.
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I can agree. My last job for example i had to work with something called UiPath. It was a vb Based Framework for ui automation. You could automatically scrape websites, control applications, screen shot etc. all designed with activitys visualized in boxes and workflows. you could add code on parameters and selectors. it was rly powerful and helped me a lot to understand "real" coding as well. There is a community version for free out there. i can imagine this fitting the needs of many on this board :P
 
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