Dealing With Stagnation in Software Development

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It’s inevitable that if you do something for long enough that at certain points you are going to become bored and frustrated with that thing. Whether it’s running , cooking, dancing or in our case Software Development it’s going to happen and it can really throw some people off. It can bring all sorts of doubts, unwanted feelings of shame and real moments of panic — “I thought this was my passion, how can I be bored?!” or “I thought I loved what I did, I shouldn’t feel like this.” or “I’m not a real developer if I feel like this.”

In this article I want to share my thoughts and strategies I have incorporated over the years to deal with these scenarios.

These Thoughts Are Perfectly Normal

Let’s start with the thoughts themselves. These thoughts of boredom or frustration are perfectly normal and can arise for all sorts of reasons. Maybe you’re just tired, maybe you’ve been doing the same thing for far too long or maybe you’ve just had a crappy week where everything you’ve touched seemed to break.

It can bring all sorts of doubts, unwanted feelings of shame and real moments of panic — “I thought this was my passion, how can I be bored?!” or “I thought I loved what I did, I shouldn’t feel like this.” or “I’m not a real developer if I feel like this.”