[curiousfiddler]

From my ~15 years of experience, if there is just one advice I could give to someone starting their career as a software developer: irrespective of whether your work is exciting or not as much, it is a joy in itself to keep working on improving your craft, which is writing software systems. Excellence is always a moving target, but if you stop working on your craft, the joy you will experience as you become senior and older, will keep decreasing.

[0x445442]

This is my experience as well. At this point in my career, craft and quality is about the only thing that keeps me from ejecting.

[specialist]

Nice.

The way I heard it from an English professor:

Writers write. The only way to become a better writer is to write more.