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Find out your strengths and focus on developing those, and just be good enough on your weaknesses. When I first became a programmer I was obsessed with clean c
by tboyd47 9y ago
Find out your strengths and focus on developing those, and just be good enough on your weaknesses.
When I first became a programmer I was obsessed with clean code and architecture principles but would lose every debate about it with my co-workers, and always end up rewriting my code to match some principle someone follows. This would happen at every job and became very stressful and unpleasant. Now I have accepted that I will never be a first class code architect and although I am very secure in my developer skills, I don't really get involved in coding debates. I am content to let other people do the architecting and just tell me what to do, and much happier for it. I found other strengths I have on the job.
- shankr 9y agoThis resonates with me. I do lot of data work myself, but at the end, I get better inputs from my colleagues on how to proceed further. Lot of my colleagues are Phds and they seem to have knack of diving deeper into problems. This makes me afraid that I won't be able to lead a team or hold a managerial position later in my career.