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Something every pro coder must embrace if they wish to truly make this more than a hobby

There is a keen fact that separates hobbyists and amateur enthusiasts from career-seeking pro coders: hobbyists can stop and start whenever they wish. A hobbyist can carry out a tutorial, try out a new stack, or experiment with a new library recently released. This is true.

But a pro coder does all these things for the sake of their clients or the shop they work for.

There are naturally consequences to this.

We cannot stop and start as we wish.

While you should take breaks and re-energize suitably, you need to seek to move the needle. Drive things forward. Iterate on either a piece of code, a continuous integration job, or update the reference documentation even when we don’t feel the passion.

Sometimes you’ll be tired.

Sometimes you’ll be frustrated.

And sometimes no one around you will have the answer you seek. You must find it yourself.

A hobbyist in such a situation would set the issue on the shelf and go do something else. Perhaps another beginner’s tutorial. Or…