- That it's a dead beat job. Get into something with more money like finance sales or management. There's no real money except for the few rare top 10% performe

- That it's a dead beat job. Get into something with more money like finance sales or management. There's no real money except for the few rare top 10% performers at Google,Facebook etc. - software is just pure crap. Tools are crap environments are crap libraries and frameworks are crap. Nothing ever just works but endless nonsense and meta problems. - career progression is shit unless you're really few of those superstars at an organisation that appreciates technical skills. Or unless you have other skills such as bullying ass kissing or office politics. - regarding code itself. Code as little as possible. Code is very expensive so you want to solve your problems with as little code as possible ideally without any code. - be aggressively lazy. Don't do anything that really doesn't need doing. Focus your effort on the few things that really matter. Remember hard work has no intrinsic value. Engineers in general don't understand this. - don't be sloppy. The things you do code while you try to minimize the code the code you do write needs to be at least ok quality.