What to do When You’re Bored at Your Software Engineering Job

Tried and true techniques to move past the boredom

Caleb Rogers
Nov 6 · 4 min read
Photo by Colton Duke on Unsplash

Sometimes you get bored at work.

That’s just a fact of life as a software engineer. Projects come and they go, but sometimes there’s a lull between old and new. Other times, you have to wait until someone else delivers something to you so you can…

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Caleb Rogers

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Software engineer. Automation, data, the cloud, adventure, excitement…these are my things. Also a runner.

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