I am professionally a software developer for 8 years and I simply don’t have ideas for personal projects (Can’t find any problem that I can fix with programming). At times I feel like that’s natural and I shouldn’t worry about it. But on the other hand, I do like to imagine having something personal that I can work on so that even if some days on my main job are not satisfying, I can always work on my hobby project and find that missing satisfaction.

End goal here is obviously to get better sleep as sometimes my mind feels dissatisfied with the day’s work.

Funnily, I day-dream about the idea of already having done the boring parts (simply manifesting a project that already exists) of some personal project and only solving exciting problems in relation to adding a new feature or exciting aspects.

This creates a problem as I hate staring at a blank file not knowing what to write.

  • @Zachariah
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    61 month ago

    Well, you’re posting on Lemmy, so that’s something. And it seems to have fostered an interesting discussion, so that’s even better.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      21 month ago

      I am a monster lurker for stuff that hits close to home. So I guess it became too much so I just threw it out here.