What are your current biggest struggles in your professional life?

Having to attend meetings I don't need involvement in

Being added to projects that are not within my skillset and being expected to be an expert on them in short amounts of time, and resultant looking like an idiot in front of customers.

Working with other like-minded, passionate devs I can bounce ideas off and generally chat tech stuff with.

After 10y I lost the eye of the tiger..
Lost the passion to build my career towards my own products, maybe company.

Just living my life, trying to enjoy my days..
It bothers me but I don’t know how to get it back.
Maybe I have to go back to where it all started <- rocky reference

being a bad programmer, no perspective in a legacy project with clearcase and python 2

the borrow checker

The same issues as in my personal life: the inability to keep them separate.

The fact that the company won't let me(or anyone else) have API access to our ticketing system.

I want to re-write big part of one of our products but I’m not sure if it’ll be much better than before also we don’t have enough time for it..

Boredom. Pure and utter boredom.
I have a university degree, and yet all I'm doing is building CRUD backend after CRUD backend because that's all the "digital transformation" amounts to.

@just8littleBit I've lost my passion for life; for anything. Started out in a tech school in the early 80s, learned some Z80 assembly, BASIC, couldn't get a coding job. Went to college (87-92) majored in physics, took Pascal & Fortran. Couldn't get a coding job. Grad school (93-95) for physics, switched to comp-sci. Got a job in tech support. Stuck in tech support (eventually in management) until 2000.

I was hired at a software development company for tech support but one day, during training, we were given a list of commands to type in at the terminal (Solaris) and told to record the responses. This sounded like monkey work to me, so I quickly scripted the whole thing with Bash, sed, expect, etc. in a screen session and saved the whole thing to a file to be printed. When they saw this, I was moved to a Build & Release Engineer position. Spent most of my days writing Bash & Perl scripts and looking for bugs in the Java & C++ code that prevented the builds from succeeding. ... (con'd)

Now, just to be clear, I enjoyed coding things - little things - in Pascal, Basic, C, C++, & Perl - over the years for fun. Held many blue collar jobs over the years, coding in my spare time. Made some money doing web sites for people and small businesses since '95. I'm not a "software engineer". I know what an algorithm is, I just don't know any off the top of my head. :-)

My life took a serious downturn in 2002. In 2007, I started a small web hosting business. Some years later, in need of cash, I sold it - small change, no big $$. I've wanted to get a coding job since '82 when I started. I can't seem to convince anyone that I should be coding, not in tech support. I'm hoping some Python courses will help change that. Any thoughts/advice/snide comments would be appreciated. Btw, this is my first day on devrant so, if this is inappropriate, feel free to ignore it. TIA. (wow, didn't realize it was this long!)