Do you like being a SWE?
Do you like to code? Do you like upscaling every year? How did you start liking it? If you don’t, how do you plan on staying in the industry? Serious answers only
Answering all your questions in sequence.
I like to code to an extent that we can call it love. (But learning curve of a new tech makes me impatient sometimes)
Yes, upskilling is important, I like to do so every 2-3 months.
I started liking coding because first, good money obviously, and if you are in a start up or smaller org, your work has visible effect in terms of operation/performance which translates to real money. Having a skill that makes money, that too on a scale of millions feels great.
There are days when I don’t like what I do, there are even weeks when it happens regularly, I think the best at that time is to talk to your superiors about the burn out, change or switch tasks or even take a short break.
Constant burnout will make you hate everything, not just work, even personal relationships.
If you even slightly like to code or are fascinated by it, this is a beautiful industry I believe, but factors like bad managers, bad org, bad wlb, affects our impression a lot. Don’t hate the game, just avoid or quickly move on from bad players
PROXYSERVER
Stealth
a year ago
How do you upscale? How long has it been for you in the industry?
How can one decide if they like being a developer?
( I have had bad managers in a row, with only one being good at the start of my career. Not being able to learn on the job, decreases motivation, which shows in my work)
UpsetUnicorn
Stealth
a year ago
I am a civil engineer who moved to swe role. I started liking it because I did not attend CS classes in college. I am pretty confident teachers would have made me hate it had I picked CS in college.
Also, From what I have observed, you start disliking work when you work on a very small piece of the project. Similar to working in a factory just tightening screws all day like in the Charlie Chaplin movie. In my case, I had an end business goal at all times. Improving something had direct benefits in terms of easier sales. And its easier for me to learn and write better code against doing better in sales.
Anyway, I suppose building a whole car end to end is more fun compared to being a factory worker tightening screws all day. Same applies to swe and pretty much every other profession.
Sapthinker
Stealth
a year ago
Yes I love it but don’t find good projects to work in office
