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Do you really like the job that you're going to do?
by GabrelyanG 5y ago
Do you really like the job that you're going to do?
- brndoutthrw 5y agoI am a software engineer and I used to love coding, but things have changed lately, I still want to code and ship stuff, whether it is in current job or at new job, problem is, there are many things I don't like but I need to do them anyway, which is part of a job, e.g. PM created a ticket based on customer request which is going to change a lot of things in our code if done correctly, but there is not enough time allocated, customer request and refactoring code is not a problem, but time to deliver is a problem, PM is expecting it to be delivered in a month, but we know we need to make a hard trade-off here by making a patch and creating yet another tech debt, time is just not enough to deliver things with high quality. All these things piling up everyday and dealing with project with a huge tech debt affected my health, before this project I thought I am a good engineer, now I think I am a terrible engineer, I will fail in my next job and so on.
- brndoutthrw 5y agoI am trying to push myself to think positively, everyday I say to myself, this work is awesome, I am going to build things, doing things I like, coding and shipping features, but the time I open next ticket/IDE all these feelings are gone, how can you positively think when you are sitting on a shit