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I've long reached a point where my goals now are to: (a) enjoy my job. I don't enjoy places with lots of stress or difficult people. (b) work in a place where
by physicsguy 5y ago
I've long reached a point where my goals now are to:
(a) enjoy my job. I don't enjoy places with lots of stress or difficult people.
(b) work in a place where there's some level of technical skill development.
(c) earn more money.
(a) is easy to track. If I find myself getting frustrated a lot, I set LinkedIn to 'open to opportunities'. (b) is harder, but I find if people start to come mostly to me about technical questions over other people in the team, e.g. "how should I write this?", then I'm probably hitting a point where I should move on. (c) is even easier. I just check LinkedIn occasionally and see if jobs being sent my way are more than what I currently earn. I just got a £15k pay rise by doing this.
- 2bor-2n 5y ago>if people start to come mostly to me about technical questions over other people in the team, e.g. "how should I write this?", then I'm probably hitting a point where I should move on. Why is this be a problem for you? Doesn't this imply you are the most knowledgeable in the team (technically)? Isn't this a good thing for a developer?
- croo 5y agoWhen you are the smartest man in the room you don't have anyone to learn from.
- physicsguy 5y agoIf I hit that point, I’m not learning as much. So that’s why I’d stray towards moving on. I’m a Senior Dev so have quite a bit of growth potential yet.
- croo 5y agoWhat about your not work related goals?