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> Perhaps you need to be a contractor, not an employee. If you can't read code by written by others, being a (software) contractor is probably the worst job yo
by WJW 3y ago
> Perhaps you need to be a contractor, not an employee.
If you can't read code by written by others, being a (software) contractor is probably the worst job you could have. Now you need to read new code at every new client you start at.
- zimpenfish 3y ago> Now you need to read new code And most times it's code that you really don't enjoy reading because it was dragged up from the slurry pits in Beelzebub's own septic tank and mangled over the years into a horrific totem, a paean to insanity, screeching out its perverted agonies the only way it knows how - through JIRA and Kanban boards containing decade-old bugs that you are asked, nay expected, to fix in your first week.
- okeuro49 3y agoI worked with a contractor who implements an abstraction layer for a communication protocol: goes into a company, provides an integration for the protocol, then leaves. Similarly I've worked for someone who sets up a continuos integration systems. There are contracting jobs that don't require you to read the code of others.