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From someone who’ve been 23 years in the industry, go out, have fun, and build a network. Your skills will not take you further, your network will.
by Oras 2y ago
From someone who’ve been 23 years in the industry, go out, have fun, and build a network.
Your skills will not take you further, your network will.
- apwell23 2y agotoo shy
- salomonk_mur 2y agoThere's the thing to change.
- ddingus 2y agoYep. It can be done.
- Zambyte 2y agoYou should treat this as a symptom rather than an identity
- aduwah 2y agoAs someone who is also 23 years in the trenches, I agree 100%
- slyall 2y agoHowever failure to update your skills will eventually catch up with you if you are in a technical role. You don't want to be 40 and an expert in some legacy technology that even the trailing edge companies are phasing out.
- solumos 2y agoAll the more reason to make the jump out of a purely technical role, in my opinion
- thorin 2y agoI'm inclined to agree with you however I know a few C++ developers, DBAs etc approaching their 60s who don't have any inclination to do anything non technical. I myself have moved from development to solution architecture. I'm quite surprised how non-technical it is most of the time, although it does require a lot of understanding of concepts which most managers seem to struggle with.
- Desafinado 2y agoI'm not sure I'm in full agreement with this. Yes your network has a big impact on your success, but your network is going to be a lot more helpful if you're a skilled developer who delivers. Put another way, if you put in the effort to become a consistently excellent developer, that's most definitely not going to hurt your career prospects. If you're mediocre and cause problems people will be less likely to refer you.