The new job is sucking all of my motivation away. Been a while since I’ve did any coding just for fun. It’s tedious to even start learning new things after work.. how do you people deal with it?

I learn on the job on a need basis. And in the evening every now and then I’ll read some documentation of technologies I use at work.
I’ve stopped trying to spend time learning things unrelated to what I need to get my job done.

@black-kite this.

My job requires a lot of tech and different stacks, it's already information overload. Why add to the chaos.

If I need to know X, I'll go learn X but other than that, I'll learn on the job while I'm building what ever it is I'm not experienced in.

Just be transparent, and say you don't know X thing, so there's an expectation set for the workload to include getting up to speed.

i think we don't deal with it, that's why we have devrant

jokes aside, you probably need a break or a different job, but i wouldn't count on finding anything too different out there. your motivation comes back after a while away from work, there's not much more i can recommend. therapy maybe

I dealt with it by accepting my new job was not right for me and left before sinking years of my life into it. Even tho my new role is a bit of a pay cut.
I wasn’t doing any coding at all and was spending 8 hours a day doing dev-ops mobbing. By the end of the day I felt completely exhausted and all I could do was sit in front of the tv and have a beer.

I heard “we are software engineers not developers” as a justification for doing nothing but dev ops all day every day.
That’s not for me so bye bye.

Been in my new role a week now and already my energy levels are up at the end of the day. Using that energy to start exercising again.

While I was in the role I found some respite by doing leetcode in a language I wasn’t familiar with, just to give my brain something to work on.

@C0D4 exactly. No point in saturating our brains.
I’d say if one is really unhappy with their job, they should change jobs (easier said than done) or make the best out of their current job. That could by trying to write better code, introducing new ways to be more efficient, suggesting new tools, better processes etc
This is how I’m "surviving" in my current job

@black-kite I’m curently started interviewing. Good thing that there was an avalanche of recruiters lookong for my stack this month, so have a pool to choose from. Will see where this leads