Re: Advice for a Restless JAPH

[CubicSpline]

I think given the response of the various monks who have already posted, you're describing a feeling that is common among programmers, especially ones in an environment where technical skill is not necessarily understood.

I don't have much to add to the ideas already expressed, but I do have one piece of advice that may or may not be to your liking:

If the people you are working with aren't getting much out of your coding ability, and that is bothering you, trying taking your coding ability to them. These people have jobs that they do, work that they are responsible for. Can you take your skills and apply them in such a way that you are solving a problem for those around you? Believe me, it's hard to get anyone to appreciate you for doing your job, primarily because it's not important to them. But if you manage to show them a way to make their job easier, or show them something that registers as particularly useful or insightful to them then watch the praise roll in.

~CubicSpline
"No one tosses a Dwarf!