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Unfortunately for most devs, the only way to set yourself up for "better" work later, is to force current mediocre work to use the tooling of the future work. I
by alexbanks 8y ago
Unfortunately for most devs, the only way to set yourself up for "better" work later, is to force current mediocre work to use the tooling of the future work. In 2019 if you have on your resume that you're only familiar with Rails and ERB-sites, and you suggest using them for pretty much everything, you'll never get a new job. At a certain point, career-minded devs have to do the "resume driven development" game a little bit, if only to know what others are doing.
But in reality most work is very simple. Most work does not require new shiny technology. Most work is insanely mundane.
- pjmlp 8y agoDepends pretty much where one wants to work. Outside the software business, on companies whose focus is totally unrelated to software, no one cares that much how things work. They just have a couple of devs, or hire some freelancers do do some stuff, no matter how, it just has to look pretty.
- beefalo 8y agoAnd they pay them peanuts compared to software businesses.
- pjmlp 8y agoSpeaking from experience, not necessarily.
- alexbanks 8y agoI feel like this is pretty specific and/or lucky. In my experience, the companies you're referring to also have a person that's worked there for 15+ years and "architected" all of their infra from scratch, in an incredibly unmaintainable way. Sure, they could've done whatever they wanted, but that does not mean that it's better than the alternative.