# A developer reflects on losing interest in projects, concepts, and programming languages

DevFeed: [A developer reflects on losing interest in projects, concepts, and programming languages](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/boredom-25385.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://smileykeith.com/2013/02/01/boredom/>)

Author: Keith Smiley

Published: 2013-02-01T19:03:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Keith Smiley](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/keith-smiley.md>)

Topics: [Ruby](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ruby.md>), [Objective-C](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/objective-c.md>), [C](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/c.md>)

Tags: [career](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/career.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [languages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/languages.md>), [objective-c](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/objective-c.md>), [project](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/project.md>), [ruby](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ruby.md>), [scope](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scope.md>), [work](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/work.md>)

## AI overview

A developer reflects on becoming less interested in projects, concepts, and programming languages after working on them for several months. They worry about sustaining a career in development and are unsure what will keep them engaged in future projects.

## Source excerpt

Working as a developer full-time can be very exciting. Dealing with new interesting problems gets me up in the morning. But I still find that after a few months of a specific project I find myself less and less interested with it. Not only projects but concepts and languages start to become less interesting. First it was websites then Objective-C then Ruby then C and now who knows. This scares me. At this point in my life I hope to work in this field for my 'career' meaning a significant amount of time. Yet I can't even keep myself working on a single project now, much less one that doesn't interest me. I typically blame this on the difficulty of the project. As a lone developer I find that most projects I work on are pretty small in scope, since I just don't have the time or people-power to work on anything larger. Therefore I look at most of my projects without interest. I'm not sure what it will take to keep myself engaged and interested on my next project.