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Comment on Ask HN: As a programmer do you have ups and downs and periods of intense doubt?

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All the time. I feel like crippling anxiety, insecurity, mental anguish and deep self loathing is par for the course in this career. When it gets to the point where I literally hate myself for being alive, I start to consider dropping everything attached to a circuitboard and cleaning floors for a living instead. This happens about 2-3 times a week.

It takes a lot of cojones to acknowledge those feelings (even to oneself), let alone share them with others.

So (despite the triteness of the slogan), thanks for doing that.

This.

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