I know this is anecdotal but I've also spoken to a nurse treating depressive patients for 20 years and she swore by recent treatments of Ketamine here in the UK.
About 5 years into my career I was asking myself the same thing. At the time I must have gone through 10 - 15 full time gigs, either quitting or getting fired so I knew something was not right. I could do the work but definitely never saw myself in there for the long run so quickly lost the passion for it.
Co workers were always friendly and sociable, but with very different interests, I'd also never imagine myself as them in 5 to 10 years. Sounds judgmental but it's important to sometimes look at who's around you as you more often than not end becoming them. Looking back, it was a lot to do with me not being that confident in what I wanted to do or become and a little lost.
I started working remotely which gave me so much more freedom as far as traveling and training in other things that I've really enjoyed the last 3 years. To the point where if I'm not coding for a couple of weeks - I really miss it.
I'm grateful everyday for the amount of freedom and money you can make programming when you compare it to SOOO many dead end careers out there.
TLDR;
Keep asking questions, keep trying different roles, hang out with people doing jobs in completely different industries: service industry, sales... keep at it, something will click :D
We're a well funded startup based in Santa Monica, CA building the next generation of interactive video. Fuisz Media enables object-level interactivity in video, at scale. We automatically tag products, people, and other objects in videos, and build beautiful interfaces to make them shareable and shoppable.
Node.js Back-end Engineer
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Job Description
We're looking for a highly talented Node.js developer with experience managing and automating systems on Amazon Web Services. You would help us finish the development of our back-end system while getting ready to launch our platform into production. Among your tasks will be to get us to zero-downtime deployment on a single command, to design & develop automated tests and architect our internal reporting system.
Skills & Requirements
Write clear, simple and scalable code
Master deployment in AWS (EC2, S3, Cloudfront..)
Full domain of Javascript and Node.js
Full domain of MongoDB and Redis
Experience on Linux environment and Shell scripting
Experience scaling Node.js applications on AWS
Awareness of authentication and security best practices
Ability to design and develop automated tests
Experience with automated testing tools
Familiar with Git and Github
Flash VPAID Expert
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Job Description
We're looking for a talented flash/as3 developer who would like to help us implement our video interactivity framework and build cool UIs on top of our interactive videos.
Skills & Requirements
Write clear and simple code
Full domain of Flash/AS3 and design patterns
Familiar with javascript
Experience building Rich Media Ad Units
Familiar with the IAB VAST/VPAID standards
Experience building responsive UIs
Ability to write tests
Familiar with Git and Github
Javascript Rich-Media Developer
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Job Description
We're looking for talented Javascript developers with experience in Rich Media who would like to help us architect the workflow to deploy our interactive video experiences as Rich Media Ad units.
Skills & Requirements
Write clear and simple code
Experience with MRAID, DoubleClick studio and various ad formats
Full domain of Javascript and design patterns
Experience building rich UIs
Ability to write tests
Familiar with Git and Github
Familiar with Node.js and MongoDB
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I recommend Lyle MacDonald, http://www.bodyrecomposition.com he's quite scientific to his approach, plenty of material can be found on youtube and on those 'sites' you know of ;)