I’m a star, how could I not shine!
Is what I always think when i’m tired, exhausted and unmotivated. I’ve experienced burnout one too many times, and personally speaking its the worst thing, at the worst time. Coding is my passion, but endlessly looking at the 100’s of lines of code I write and review takes a toll, however tedious it may be.
But I still go on! The projects and knowledge ain’t going to finish on their own!
So let me share my experience with burnout on my first project and how I got through it!
To clear the air, my project was a custom language interpreter to imitate BASIC in Python (pretty dumb but I had big aspirations). Currently completed till desicion making (if loops and currently working on while loops).
The burnout was crazy, I dedicated myself to work on this with minimal usage of generative AI! And to be honest, I might have lost some screws in the process, but here we are!
How I dealt with the burnout though? Through music, some random breaks and caffeine (i’d only suggest 2/3 things in there).
Rawdogging it through the night, while watching some things I like (flight documentaries) helped me rack my brain, while reading blogs on Reddit and Stack Overflow. And the coffee definetly came in clutch.
Basically, succumb to your desires but know when to come back! And continue the grind!
Learning is a different process, and DSA absolutely wounded me to the ground! But 45 days is all I took, and I shall share my experience and roadmap as soon as possible!
Till then, signing off.
The Github link to my project,
the very fact that you basically came up with this despite the rough times just truly proves that you are a star and you do shine⭐