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It will help if you find meaning in the work that you are doing than finding a meaningful work. When I graduated, I had similar experience. I was deep into cs
by mindhash 6y ago
It will help if you find meaning in the work that you are doing than finding a meaningful work.
When I graduated, I had similar experience. I was deep into cs and loved the art of programming. But then I was writing SQL queries for most of my day. I was upset but during this time I also spent incredible amount of time learning how databases work internally, optimising SQL and Db through low level traces. Another really useful thing I learnt in this job is users. My users were financial controllers, warehouse managers. The job gave me a deeper understanding of how users think, what they know and what matters for them.
Over the years I worked with many tech and product shops but the amount of insights and learning at that job are incomparable. I just had so much tim to learn things I would otherwise not spend time on.
A software problem is intriguing and fun to work on but it's not always meaningful to others.