A survey of Software developers finds very narrow focus in what motivates. Even the most hardened veteran still gets tingles when building something new and learning.
If you haven't read 'Drive' by Daniel Pink yet, you should get on that. His insights are very true for us software people. Just a fantastic book. If you are feeling unmotivated by your decent paying job, get this book for some possible explanations.
Bottom line, it's very cool to build stuff. Along that vein, I've been visiting this blog a lot in the past few days. It seems to be written directly for me. I'm a shutterbug, a product review addict, and software professional (which they seem to have a requirement for).
I found a job listing on the site and it sounds like a wicked cool place to work. Lots of building stuff, very few meetings.
But the most interesting part isn't the description of themselves in the job listing, but their use of coding challenge to evaluate new candidates. It doesn't appear to be one of those high pressure 'code while we watch' type deals. Rather, you download the challenge data and produce a solution. Email them a link and your resume when you're done.
I might just do that.
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