It's been a while without posts in this section, so much that I'm even considering the possibility of removing it from aggregators and declaring it archived. Truth is, my job has changed much, and is not anymore what it used to be.

Whereas before I could tackle some difficult technical problems, and use the best of my creativity to come up with solutions (with various degrees of elegance, efficiency, maintainability, you name it), nowadays most of my time is spent teaching and inside MS Project, rather than inside an editor. I've written no more than 200 lines of Java code in the past 7 months, 120 of which are for a personal project...

I feel I'm losing my skills without gaining anything else worthwhile. I don't like it. I'm wading through problems that aren't problems, situations that should never exist, boredom taken to extremes. And that's because I'm already too jaded to complain about human stupidity or uselessness. Now I'm seriously thinking, if that's the path my career is going, I gotta stop it right now. I've been in "bespoke software development" for something like four or five years, with ups and downs of course but generally enjoying it, perhaps it's the time to turn towards product development (assuming there is something interesting to develop) or exit the software business altogether. In the latter case, things would be extremely interesting, because finding something else to do would be very challenging, and potentially risky as well.