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I like how you and everyone below this comment seem to know exactly what my job involves. I've worked on somewhere around 200 different systems and been a/the l
by feoren 4y ago
I like how you and everyone below this comment seem to know exactly what my job involves. I've worked on somewhere around 200 different systems and been a/the lead developer on several dozen. I've worked in ~20 different engineering and science domains and gotten enough knowledge that engineers in the individual fields ask me questions about their domains and ask me to QC their Excel spreadsheets and calculations, having nothing to do with software development. I've worked with 6 different database technologies from FoxPro to SQL Server to Redis. I've written code professionally in 8 or 9 languages. I've written programs to calculate statistical outliers, perform mass-balance calculations, do spell/grammar checking, unit conversions, translation, some light AI, and lots more. I've written proposals and made marketing materials. I've worked with hundreds of different people on projects of all sizes.
So everyone assuming that I stopped learning anything new 12 years ago can fuck right off.
I'm not saying this to brag, I'm saying this to point out that all these assertions that "you should change jobs every 2 years or you stagnate" or "you can't learn your job deeply in 2 years" are both completely unfounded bullshit assumptions. It completely depends on what the job is.
- ZephyrBlu 4y agoThis is a great copypasta. Where did you find it?
- mcluck 4y agoI think you're still missing my original point. You have been in your own bubble for a decade. It may have been a very interesting bubble with a lot to learn but it's still a bubble. You don't have a sense of what other companies are looking for because you haven't asked them or put yourself on their radar. You don't have a sense of the level of skill of developers outside of your bubble. I'm not claiming to be an expert here either but you specifically present yourself as being knowledgeable on the subject because of your 13 years with one company, which just doesn't make sense