:o Are you secretly working with me? This is EXACTLY how it is at my job…except I make $7.25 an hour >:(
One advantage to work on a complete different domain as the computer science is to keep your motivation up for your indies developpements.
When you dev 10 hours per day at work, you haven’t always the motivation to continue at home 
Free work times and I can do 20% of the time what ever I want. Rest of the time I “have” to develop cool games. Yeah this programming thingy is really “boring”.
I happen to work with 5-6 guys who were with me in the university, so we do have a lot of fun in the breaks (which we do quite often). It seems like we’re still in university, but now we have money!
So I think a large part of not getting bored of a job is to have fun not only on what you’re doing (programming) but also have a nice workplace. Having fun doing anything that you are paid to do is not easy, so I would focus on the second part.
Although I agree that it should be nice to change jobs in 2 or 3 years, I’ve been in this same job for the past 5 years. I really have no complains (of course I would be happier to make some more money, but that’s a complain everybody will have at any time). I do have a lot of free time, at the point that let’s say, 50% of my games I’ve written, I did it here (at work). Hopefully nobody I know will read this
Anyway,you should never forget that you spend more time with your workmates than you do with your family, so it is crucial to get along with the people you spend most time with. If before lunchtime you’re desperate to get home because you can’t stand your workmates or your activities, it’s definetely time to look for something else.
you people forget the smell.
backed in mcdonalds smell even after showering
these kinds of jobs kill your brain cells; i seriously dont think they are valuable experiences, I hated them
its a waste of life, especially considering all these tasks could be done by a machine
but this whole thread sure reminds you of “Office Space”
Cas encourages me to wear 37 pieces of flair :
Hahaha. Awesome. I’ll bet he does.
“Riven, I can’t help but notice that you’re wearing the minimum number of flair pieces today. Are you okay with the bare minimum?”
Ha, catch you! You’re fired! Just kidding ;D
I want your job! Since you’re also from Brazil, I just got curious where do you work?
I work at Sao Paulo inernational airport, with Air Traffic control. Since the guys are pretty bad ass to pilot those planes anyway, I just leave them to sort out what to do and write my games instead.
Let’s hope your job is not crucial or high risking ;D
Oh ya I just got a call for interview tomorrow for an enterprise programmer. Lolwut? enterprise? someone like me? :
I can relate 
that’s going to be hard to explain if one crashes
You should always wear at least the required minimum+1 so that you don’t agitate the master!
I find any amount of programming with commercial element can get boring. Fun program ends up being:
- title change
- image change
- upload new files
- customer support
- text changes
- minor business logic updates
End of finding most of the day spent doing boring mundane tasks. You are no longer programming. New features and feature requests are also very boring business functions.
Oh, god, the smell. Took at least a few days to get rid of it…
Like I said, the “good” part of the experience was that I now know where I really don’t want to work.
I’m so lucky here … In my summer break I worked at the SAP. I earned 8€ per hour and didn’t have strict work times. I was allowed to be missing a day or two, when I wanted to, and It was a programming job, not a bring-me-coffee job.
I even participated at some meetings to tell them what I did and showcased them my demos…
The experience was awesome. The food wasn’t too healthy probably, but it tasted very good. Well, my colleagues were awesome, one of them had birthday for example and then sprang us ice cream. Even better is: One of our local radio stations had an Ice-cream event and they gave us (about 1k to 2k people) ice cream…
Basically… It was such a wonderful wonderland 
Having this experience with 15 is… I don’t know. Probably good that I read your post
If you only do programming, I say, yes it gets boring. But there are jobs which include some programming but also other tasks like system design, testing, maintenance and customer care, and if you are lucky also some design taks (user interfaces, graphical presentation).
These are definitely better than pure programming jobs, but also more demanding on your skills and knowledge portfolio.
I completely agree with Varkas. Also a lot depends also on what you are programming - corporate jobs are usually extremely boring. Especially since you need to sit 8 hours at the job no mater if there are things to do or not.
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Yeah, precisely. Doing the same kind of programming, in the same language, in the same context, that gets boring all-right. I do program a bit in my job, but it’s mostly prototype kind of stuff (not too advanced from programming perspective, but sometimes pretty cool from an innovation perspective, like a dyke monitoring platform). However, I also do research in the impact of information technology on society (I’m part philosopher of technology), and do some project management. For me programming definitely does not get boring, but that’s mainly because I do totally different things as well. I suppose it also helps to keep developing yourself, e.g. by learning new concepts or new languages. But not every job leaves room for that.
Even riding in a rocket to space for each and every day gets boring after a while. Right? ;D
That’s why I apply for a job that requires Java and one other language, so I can learn something since I only know Java well. Lately I got with PHP pair.