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I can sympathize. I always knew how to program since my teens. I'm 45 now, and didn't really start doing professional programming till I was in my late 30s. I w
by karmicthreat 6y ago
I can sympathize. I always knew how to program since my teens. I'm 45 now, and didn't really start doing professional programming till I was in my late 30s. I worked hard for about 6 years to build up enough experience to feel confident doing this.
Now I'm at the point where my current job is pretty boring and we don't grow enough to bring in harder problems. But I also really don't want to move out to SV to work on Neuralink, sats, robots. Even though those problems are one that would be super interesting.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y ago> I'm at the point where my current job is pretty boring and we don't grow enough to bring in harder problems This is usually the point at which I job hunt. Honestly, I need a place where new and interesting problems keep propping up. I don't think I'll ever settle but I do always leave on good terms.
- karmicthreat 6y agoUnfortunately I am in West Michigan. This is not a place with terribly interesting problems. I probably need to put together my own thing. Whats the hardest problem anyone here has that they would pay money to have solved?
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoYou'd be surprised how often people can't express the problem and can't find the proper software solution. A lot of manpower in most organizations is wasted because they can't find a contractor who will listen to their problems and actually try to fix them.
- karmicthreat 6y agoOh I'm not surprised at all. I'm guilty of this at my job as is everyone else where we work. What is our problem, what is our customers problem is always a hard question. One of my big goals right now is to figure out how to extract problems out of customers in a useful way. (I seem to be heading more and more to product manager/product owner skill set).