When Your Life’s GPS Keeps Saying ‘Recalculating`…
How I’m moving forward during uncertain times
Recently, I’m going through some kind of midlife crisis.
Maybe that doesn’t speak to you right now, but I believe at one point or another, we all go through something similar: a feeling that what we do just doesn’t matter anymore.
I’m not in my midlife yet, but I see myself approaching 40 faster than I thought I would. Heck, I still remember being scared of turning 30. It turns out, the 30s can be quite amazing!
In any case, by the time we get close to 40, there are some things we have been used to doing for many years. For me, that’s programming. I’ve been programming since I was about 13 years old.
That’s 27 years of doing the same thing.
Now, I’m lucky because programming is a very varied thing. The end result is always a new product. But the act of programming itself becomes easy and semi-automatic after a while, even if you keep trying new technologies as I do.
So recently, I’ve come to realize that the things I used to enjoy the most, like programming, writing, and being a nomad, have become more of a chore than something I want to do.
