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> Am I just hard-wired to be mediocre?

"Work with what you love, and you will never love anything ever again".

Software development is your profession. By your account, you keep up to date to new tools and languages - and that is a good practice to keep yourself employable.

Find a hobby outside of programming. Maybe try your hand at creative writing. Maybe learn how to play an instrument. Or maybe try sports, I have a friend that in his late life decided to train to run marathons. Hell, find a group to play tabletop RPGs or Magic the Gathering.

Don't internalize that bullshit hustle culture that tells you that you have to be passionate about your job. Your have to be competent at your job, and that is all. Focus your passions elsewhere.



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