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That pretty much describes my career trajectory. I'm too "old" to be hired for a lot of jobs, but it turns out that there are niches involving cleaning up the
by downerending 7y ago
That pretty much describes my career trajectory. I'm too "old" to be hired for a lot of jobs, but it turns out that there are niches involving cleaning up the messes that youngsters make. :-)
- BurningFrog 7y agoI've seriously considered becoming a "Code Janitor" consultant. I can clean up any mess better than most, and I actually enjoy it. To me refactoring is the design process of modern development. First you write the working code, and then yo design it. Except most people don't bother with the design part, and get dragged down by their atrophied systems.
- downerending 7y agoThe best work I've done has sort of iterated between design and coding, with minor and major swings between. They say that complex systems that work invariably evolve from simple systems that work, and I believe it.