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Enjoy your job! It might be detrimental if you stop growing your skills. Learning can be painful, and so it's tempting to just coast on what you know. A good c
by itamarst 9y ago
Enjoy your job!
It might be detrimental if you stop growing your skills. Learning can be painful, and so it's tempting to just coast on what you know. A good company and manager will help you grow your skills, but if they're not your job can go from great to "oh shit" very quickly when you realize your skills are obsolete.
https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/10/23/obsolete-skills/ https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/10/23/obsolete-skills/ explains the dynamic (organizational technical lag) and has suggestions on how to deal with this.
https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/04/15/40-hour-programmer/ https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/04/15/40-hour-programmer/ and https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/08/06/learning-at-work/ https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/08/06/learning-at-work/ have some more ideas for proactively making sure your skills get better.
In general nothing wrong with it, though. I stayed at one company 8 years, switching teams when I got bored, and it was mostly pretty great for my skills and career.