Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?

Re:Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career? by pandapower2 on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @10:29PM (#18072244)

I'm actually unsure if I've ever made any particularly good career decisions aside from switching into computer science. Aside from that I have largely been reliant on the combination of being reasonably competent and the generally high demand for developers to make up for lack of good career decisions.

On multiple occasions I have resigned from jobs after 2-3 years with no clear plan for the future, let alone another job lined up, simply because I didn't like my current job anymore.

On multiple occasions I have poured hundreds, maybe thousands, of hours into projects and start-up ideas that never had a realistic chance of working out. I did this safe in the knowledge that I could run down my finances working on some fun speculative project and someone out there would give me a job to let me pay the bills when I needed it.

So I certainly haven't maximized within my career but I chose a career well.

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Re:Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career? by madeuptempacct on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:19PM (#18072464)

There is a lot of truth in this. Switching to software development from finance was clearly a good choice. Past that, I think "my startup was awesome", "working for a startup was awesome", "big corp is the way to go" is going to be elicited by individual experience.

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Re:Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career? by Banderly on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @04:23AM (#18073881)

Delighted to hear such an accurate description of my own career. I'm not alone.

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