We all have a reason to get start code. But after -5 experience What motivates you guys to code .

Please clarify what you mean by -5 experience?

@100110111 Minus 5 years? Or maybe it's just his intelligence stat that dropped 5 points

I'm thinking that was meant to be a ~

It took me 5 years to go from my first line of code to a dev job, it wasn't the career I started with but did some messing around on the side.

That job turned from data entry to developement to managing 250k/year in sales for a small business.

That job laster 4 years, the year after I freelanced to pay the bills until I picked up another full time job.

6 years later, I'm the senior developer and have been involved with most of the projects since I started for a branch of the company and still code day and night.

What's motivation?
Have kids and feed them,
beyond that, enjoy the ride. 😏

If you are sick of tutorials, nothing is wrong. I generally like to develop my tiny software projects. Last I did was developing sensor readings website(data was coming from Arduino). It was fun and small so its size or blandness did not discourage me. On top of that I learnt basic Angular, HTML and CSS. Were those necessary to learn? Absolutely not but the scenario was fun.

Try to find small problems that can be solved with your skillswt: maybe an automation script, a small UI or whatever.

But if job coding is boring, I have no remedy for that.

I'm assuming you meant ~5 years of experience and not -5 experience (unless it's some gaming reference I'm not seeing).

In my case, it's:
- the ability to learn more things (like adding new tools to your toolbox and getting to use them).
- the new ways of doing things (e.g. deploying services, projects in different places or more automated or efficient methods).
- the almost constant stream of ideas for projects (some of which are solutions to problems I or others have).
- being better at something I enjoy.
- being more aware of the other roles, responsibilities, needs and issues of others.
- having more career paths to visit.
- doing things with like-minded people (be it meetups, projects, competitions, ...).
- being able to accomplish stuff on my own or with others.

If you struggle to find motivation, try:
- filling an IKIGAI diagram,
- learning new things (without being stuck in tutorial hell) and applying them (especially if you learn by experimenting or doing).

@100110111 Typo it is 4-5

that's simple. I like to make stuff, no exceptions.

whether it is electronics, cooking, drawing or programming I just like to sometimes sit down and make something cool with what I know. With programming specifically it's usually something I want to test, experiment, challenge myself or make some work easier.

sometimes I just have a neat idea of using the hardware I have in a cool way

other times I just wonder if a certain trick would be possible and would make my future projects easier

often I think of a boilerplate code I written a lot of times that's specific to me and just try to make it into a neat minimal library that I can re-use across my projects

Even at work where the code is repetitive and barely creative I often find the need to build tools or test things to get the boring work done faster with less pain!

I honestly have trouble comprehending why people *wouldn't* be motivated to code, it's awesome, It's like Lego but with endless bricks to use.

Nothing motivates me to code but I don't have a talent for anything major else so here I am.

@Ranchonyx Kinda for me too. No option left so here

@Berkmann18 Thanks for IKIGAI diagram :)

@rox79 You're welcome 🙂.