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Approaching age 50, there are a lot more "I should have walked away sooners" than "I should have stuck with thats" in the rear view mirror. But I can't say it'
by mythrwy 7y ago
Approaching age 50, there are a lot more "I should have walked away sooners" than "I should have stuck with thats" in the rear view mirror.
But I can't say it's generally good advice to walk away frequently because I'm not sure what the outcome of so much walking away would have been.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoThat's very true. From my mid 50s perspective there's been a couple of big, "I really should have stuck with thats", but mainly "life's too short to put up with that garbage". Which of course makes it really hard to generalise into advice.
- o-__-o 7y agowhat do you do?
- turk73 7y agoThis. I can't tell you how many jobs I had that were un-salvageable early on and I knew that and still stayed there because "it would look bad on my resume." I'm doing it right now in a lot of ways! What I have also realized is that every developer job is a shit show of some proportion and the only smart move is to soon not be a developer anymore. Except, you know, the whole loss of income thing that goes with that decision. My kids won't be writing code for a living.
- meowface 7y agoI'm roughly half your age, and this has already been my experience. If you want to quit something, you shouldn't put it off.