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> I annoy everyone else (who are all about 10 years younger than me) with my constant questions. Are these technical questions or domain related questions ? If

by giis 11y ago

> I annoy everyone else (who are all about 10 years younger than me) with my constant questions. Are these technical questions or domain related questions ? If it's technical questions, I would highly recommend you to get books or videos equip yourself against these new challenges. I'd also recommend you to pick-up(ex:jquery) one area and go in-depth. Its not hard to learn anything, If you put enough effort. Honestly, I'll be annoyed with constant questions too, I expect others to do some basic google search or wiki and spend at-least 20 minutes before coming up with questions. p.s : I'm more or less at your state, but i have different problem. Managers are telling me to 'go and ask questions to everybody' but I'm like 'I don't want to question without having basic understanding of what it is!' I'll spend my time understanding the problem first before I can seek them solutions.

J-dawg 11y ago
I possibly wasn't completely fair to myself when I said I constantly ask questions. I don't just blurt stuff out, I always use Stack Overflow etc first. I think the problem might be that where I work there is no technical management, we're just allocated work by a project manager so there's no discussion of what approach to take, and nobody reviews the code I write. My fellow team members, afaik, have never been told it's their job to answer my questions or mentor me. So it's understandable they might be annoyed. None of them have ever complained, I just feel like I'm probably pretty annoying. I'd really like to work somewhere a with a little more focus on training and mentoring, with code reviews and someone officially assigned to mentor me. But I'm probably being naive to think places like that exist (or they do exist, but wouldn't consider employing me!)
- giis 11y ago
  Yes, there are lot of work places where code reviews are must. I think, you should suggest your team/manager to start using code review boards like https://www.reviewboard.org https://www.reviewboard.org that should solve most of your problem.

by giis 11y ago

J-dawg 11y ago

I possibly wasn't completely fair to myself when I said I constantly ask questions. I don't just blurt stuff out, I always use Stack Overflow etc first. I think the problem might be that where I work there is no technical management, we're just allocated work by a project manager so there's no discussion of what approach to take, and nobody reviews the code I write. My fellow team members, afaik, have never been told it's their job to answer my questions or mentor me. So it's understandable they might be annoyed. None of them have ever complained, I just feel like I'm probably pretty annoying. I'd really like to work somewhere a with a little more focus on training and mentoring, with code reviews and someone officially assigned to mentor me. But I'm probably being naive to think places like that exist (or they do exist, but wouldn't consider employing me!)

giis 11y ago
Yes, there are lot of work places where code reviews are must. I think, you should suggest your team/manager to start using code review boards like https://www.reviewboard.org https://www.reviewboard.org that should solve most of your problem.