It might be worthwhile to spend a little time figuring out what it is that you find compelling about your side project and looking for a job that will bring you that.
Is it that you’re learning new things in your side project but stagnating in your job? Maybe you find the industry or subject matter more compelling? Maybe you’re getting positive feedback from the side project (even if not from other people, just in the form of dopamine hits for each bit of progress) in a way you currently can’t from your job? Or maybe it’s just that you’re working on it by choice — and if you quit your job and work on the side project full time that will feel like a slog too?
Software developers are in demand. A new job may satisfy many of these reasons. Or you might be able to get your boss to allow you to work on things you’d find more satisfying. By in order to do that, you need to know what satisfying actually is to you.
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It might be worthwhile to spend a little time figuring out what it is that you find compelling about your side project and looking for a job that will bring you that.
Is it that you’re learning new things in your side project but stagnating in your job? Maybe you find the industry or subject matter more compelling? Maybe you’re getting positive feedback from the side project (even if not from other people, just in the form of dopamine hits for each bit of progress) in a way you currently can’t from your job? Or maybe it’s just that you’re working on it by choice — and if you quit your job and work on the side project full time that will feel like a slog too?
Software developers are in demand. A new job may satisfy many of these reasons. Or you might be able to get your boss to allow you to work on things you’d find more satisfying. By in order to do that, you need to know what satisfying actually is to you.