Changelog Master Feed Motivated by play (Changelog & Friends #43)
May 10, 2024
Annie Sexton shares her journey of personal growth, navigating career challenges, side hustles, and overcoming financial struggles. The conversation delves into finding passion in tech, balancing full-time work with creative freedom, and the journey of developing an open-source note-taking app. The episode also explores the value of choosing projects wisely as a freelancer, the evolution of software tools, overcoming writer's block, and the impact of programming tools like Puppeteer with JavaScript. Embracing playful motivation in engineering and reflecting on AI-induced changes in the job market are highlighted themes of the discussion.
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Career Change and Burnout
- Annie Sexton discusses her burnout and break from the tech industry in 2023.
- She pursued interior design but found it unfulfilling and financially unsustainable.
Tile Showroom Job
- Sexton describes her unsatisfying experience working at a tile showroom.
- She had little to do and her initiative to improve their inventory system was rejected.
Unvalued Contribution
- Despite building a new inventory system for the tile showroom, Sexton's work was dismissed.
- This further fueled her desire for a more stimulating and appreciative work environment.