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Some things I have realised after working in the industry for around 13 years: - I focus on my health more. So I control my screen time, my posture, I avoid si
by dakiol 3y ago
Some things I have realised after working in the industry for around 13 years:
- I focus on my health more. So I control my screen time, my posture, I avoid sitting down too much
- Because of the point above, I do not work 8h/day, even though my contract as an employee say so. I don’t feel bad about it: I receive positive feedback constantly and raises so it’s a win-win
- I don’t give a damn about any company, but I do care about doing a good job
- Tech stacks come and go. Good computer science fundamentals are invaluable
- I don’t do on-call rotation. The money isn’t worth it at all
- waynesonfire 3y ago> I don’t do on-call rotation. What's the nature of your work that this is acceptable?
- amonith 3y agoYou can always just refuse. They will find somebody else for it if they need it (usually they don't, system outages/errors are opportunity cost most of the time, not actual emergencies) but they will most probably still keep you for your normal "day job". I never understood devs who took on-calls without very significant pay bumps. Imagine that in other industries except medical where human life is involved. The market is really not that bad, even now. I'm about 10 years in doing business software development commercially and I always simply refused.
- dakiol 3y agoSoftware engineer. Normal stuff (k8s, python, aws, postgres, etc) On-call rotation is not always mandatory, and I always ask in the interview about that.
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