## Metadata - Author: [[prog21.dadgum.com|Prog21.dadgum]] - Full Title:: Do You Really Want to Be Doing This When You're 50? - Category:: #🗞️Articles - Document Tags:: [[Career tips|Career tips]], - URL:: https://prog21.dadgum.com/154.html - Read date:: [[2025-02-27]] ## Highlights > To me, there's an innate frustration in programming. It doesn't stem from having to work out the solutions to difficult problems. That takes careful thought, but it's the same kind of thought a novelist uses to organize a story or to write dialog that rings true. That kind of problem-solving is satisfying, even fun. > But that, unfortunately, is not what most programming is about. It's about trying to come up with a working solution in a problem domain that you don't fully understand and don't have time to understand. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jmqs5bdgtpxndyj9rzh56ekm)) > large scale, high stress coding? I may have to admit that's a young man's game. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jmqs5p13b99575482ewpjb55))