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If you can check all these boxes, you can probably also just look for a job where you can work from home.
by tinus_hn 6y ago
If you can check all these boxes, you can probably also just look for a job where you can work from home.
- codegeek 6y agoGood point.
- toast0 6y agoSometimes it's nice to keep the job you have and just change the venue. I was able to move and keep my job because I had the first two boxes, and showed the second two. Being 'indespensible' helped, although they also did fine when I eventually left (but I left later than expected, because of flexibility)
- Buttons840 6y agoIf a developer is truly good, and thus truly indespensable, they can leave and barely be missed.
- water8 6y agoUntil the entropy in their wake catches up with everyone else
- Buttons840 6y agoWhat do you mean? I meant that the best developers work well with others, coordinate with others, write maintainable code and document that code. All of this makes things easy to maintain if the developer leaves. These are rare traits and thus make an indespensable developer.
- water8 6y agoThe developer leaves and it starts with having to ask a co-worker how to configure something simple. Then suddenly the code isn't as well documented or the documents all issues that cause things not to go smoothly. Things slowly get harder to maintain because that person isn't there fighting entropy to keep order.