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What kind of trolling nonsense is this? The senior engineers I know all have spouses and children, and our employers find us quite desirable to have around. If
by ceautery 10y ago
What kind of trolling nonsense is this? The senior engineers I know all have spouses and children, and our employers find us quite desirable to have around.
If you're focusing on learning each new whizbang whatsit that comes out, you'll never learn how to lead a team. You'll teach your employer that you can be abused, because you are desperate to impress them.
Giving up a family to stay ahead will leave you a lonely, burned out mess. This is a marathon, brother, not a sprint.
- knorker 10y ago> What kind of trolling nonsense is this? The senior engineers I know all have spouses and children Please read what was written, and what I replied. > If you're[…] I'm not. Your comment is completely disconnected from what I said. > learning each new whizbang whatsit that comes out Is that the only way you know how to improve yourself professionally? If so then I think you're doing it wrong. If you're a developer doing network stuff, then given a few years you could get a CCIE or something, and learn tonnes of stuff and be a more valuable employee. You don't have to try to stay on top of the latest developments in SDN. That'd probably be a waste of time.
- pmarreck 10y ago> Giving up a family to stay ahead will leave you a lonely, burned out mess. False dichotomy fallacy. There's plenty of programmers I admire who aren't apparently parents. And there's happiness studies which show neither a positive nor a negative gain when parenthood arrives. Curious footnote: I tried to google further studies that creativity goes down once fatherhood strikes (which I have read in the past), and instead found this piece: https://onbeing.org/blog/becoming-a-father-restored-my-creativity/ https://onbeing.org/blog/becoming-a-father-restored-my-creat...