Started: 30-10-2025
Updated: 13-12-2025
Its been 2 years that I have been losing interest in my job, especially software developer/lead role. If I were to identify the root cause there could be multiple.
Whenever I need to take a decision or explain things or give an advice/suggestion, I always make sure there are multiple points supporting, which means the point is strong and valid.
Taking a step back, the reasons for my interest loss could be
- Routine: I literally hate routine way of life. Going to office, returning back, eat and sleep. Even though weekends are there, it just goes off in a jiffy. I wasnt able to cultivate any habit due to time constraint. I know this is arguable saying waking up early can give me extra hours, but I am not a morning person. I got to fight my own habits to cultivate habits 😂
- Job was boring: The work/development I was doing wasn't interesting. In previous project, I was playing a role of handling client issues and addressing them. That role used to give me a kick when there was a production issue or when client was facing a problem. I had played that role for a long time because it was chosen by me. May be I should have enhanced the role's coverage to have a greater acceptance and allow me to continue. But development wasn't/isn't really my cup of tea. And probably so I lost interest in job. I gave serious thought to move to a different role but wasn't sure if I could succeed.
- Scope of knowledge: The scope of my knowledge was very very limited to software, my bad. I should have involved myself into other things to some extent. This kept me pushing to explore more. The discussion with friends always made me realize "I don't know anything apart from software", which was true. It was just that I hadn't exposed myself to the outer world.
- Scope of Job: Well when the knowledge was itself limited, how can I take up another job? I wanted to find an answer to this. I started scanning newspapers on regular basis, scrolled through Instagram to find what kind of jobs are out there etc etc. It wasnt fruitful. I am actually open to take up any job and pour in my interest, that's how I am. That's when I started listing out domains which can sustain for a longer duration. I have a few interests of my own and I did take some steps to put my foot in them. To some extent I have explored, just to make sure it's viable and sustainable if I quit software job.
- Financial Backup: This one was the biggest challenge to take up any change in my life. Not impacting my family during my transition was the upmost priority. After all the thoughts about routine, job, scope and transition was done the financial support hit me hard. So the steps had to go backwards with strong and long term planning. There have been cases where job loss has put families in trouble and a lot of emotional, mental stress. This had to be avoided at any cost as it could impact my family, myself and our lives. The first and foremost step was to have a strong financial backup before taking any step.
- Exploring Business Opportunities: For having a strong financial backup either I should have sufficient bank balance for 3 years (so much that summing up all monthly expenses, health insurance premiums, vehicle insurance premiums, educational, travel expenses, miscellaneous and an additional 25% extra)
- Different dimension: There was also a thread in mind saying - there is only one life, why not explore other possibilities of way of leading and living. I didn't/don't have a goal set in IT industry, so why am I chasing it? It's better to set a goal and chase it. And that's where I deviated to find something else.
I worked it out to find my interest to earn and live the next innings. There is always a greater interest to work on things that we own as they are near to heart to nurture and grow to all the possible heights. There is a fear of failure but wait, not without giving it a try !
My last working day in Software company was on 7th Dec.
Challenge Accepted. I planned to shift to Academics !
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