Re:Ask HN: Anyone get anxious when they have nothing to do?
by renaissance_tea on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @01:13AM
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What’s wrong with being a junior developer?
Re:Ask HN: Anyone get anxious when they have nothing to do?
by ThrowawayR2 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @03:50PM
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There's nothing wrong with being a junior developer, as long as that junior developer matures into a senior developer in a reasonable timeframe.
No offense intended but that's the mark of a junior developer. Senior developers find themselves something to do, either to improve themselves or to help the business; preferably a single thing that does both. There are always new things to learn that will be a valuable career skill, there are always things at work that have been put off, like updating documentation, code maintenance, or adopting a new best practice. There is never nothing to do.
To forestall the inevitable complaint about overwork, you're perfectly free to do these things at as leisurely a pace as you prefer although you want to have accomplished something meaningful before the next batch of work comes in.