If you could make the same money doing something else...

[gingerjedi]

Would you?

I'm starting to dislike this lark it doesn't excite me any more, if I could earn the same money making aircraft parts (like I used to) I would, there’s something satisfying about making a physical product then standing back and saying "I made that", I do support work and though fixing peoples problems does have a certain satisfaction it's just not the same.

Do coders/developers get a sense of achievement when they deliver a working project or do they also feel a bit empty? Just interested on peoples thoughts.

[Bagpuss]

I make people happy, you can't put a price on that!

[Kyajae]

I make people happy, you can't put a price on that!

Wot, you deal in drugs?

[Old Greg]

Well, I've just taken the option of doing the same thing for more money (permie to contractor). But I know what you mean.

[sasguru]

Gigolo

[SallyAnne]

I develop stuff primarily for users (who I work quite closely with)...and I do get a sense of achievement when I see the little smiles on their faces when I've made their jobs a bit easier.

Saying that though....if I got the same money, I'd work in a pub. I wouldn't even want to own it, just work in it.

Or be a restaraunt critic.

Something to do with booze and grub

[Bagpuss]

I'd like to have a business being paid a pound everytime SA makes a post

[el duder]

Would you?

I'm starting to dislike this lark it doesn't excite me any more, if I could earn the same money making aircraft parts (like I used to) I would, there’s something satisfying about making a physical product then standing back and saying "I made that", I do support work and though fixing peoples problems does have a certain satisfaction it's just not the same.

Do coders/developers get a sense of achievement when they deliver a working project or do they also feel a bit empty? Just interested on peoples thoughts.

No satisfaction whatsoever.

None. Zero.

Oh sorry, a slight sense of satisfaction when the 4 digits appear in my electronic online bank account every week. Lasts about 2mins, max.

[To BI or not to BI?]

Round the world motorbike travelling and underwater scubadiving reporter.. without the reporting bit

[Kyajae]

I'd like to have a business being paid a pound everytime SA makes a post

And manages to get it at least 3 feet into the ground