The best advice that I ever got was to make a list of my 3 favorite things to do and choose the third thing on the list as my career. That way, I would have the other 2 as hobbies.
It sounds to me like when computers is no longer a hobby for you, it becomes tedious. I woulud make that list, find something non-IT (or at least non-programming) related and spend the rest of your time hacking.
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The best advice that I ever got was to make a list of my 3 favorite things to do and choose the third thing on the list as my career. That way, I would have the other 2 as hobbies.
It sounds to me like when computers is no longer a hobby for you, it becomes tedious. I woulud make that list, find something non-IT (or at least non-programming) related and spend the rest of your time hacking.