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A comment on Ask HN: My career has been fixing bugs for years. What now?.

Re:Ask HN: My career has been fixing bugs for years. What now? by logn on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @10:23PM (#7188532)
I think it's normal. A lot of programming jobs are maintenance. Try getting a new job. Look to get hired to a team building a new app or doing a rewrite. Or work for a webapp/app consulting firm with lots of new projects. Or take a job at a startup.

Also it might help to learn another language or two to get the best job. The best choice depends on where you live. In SF it feels like JS/Python/Ruby/Obj-C are good. Elsewhere, probably Java or Obj-C.

Also, getting hired is a numbers game. Keep at it. Read up on latest trends to get hired. Make friends with recruiters, founders, and CTOs. Bug fixing is hard work, so I think you have the aptitude. With some more exp you'll be fine at new development.

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Re:Ask HN: My career has been fixing bugs for years. What now? by sown on Thursday February 06, 2014 @10:10PM (#7194605)
> I think it's normal. A lot of programming jobs are maintenance.

My job is only bug fixing. It's 'sustaining' engineering. I'm not sure it's going to be possible to transfer, but I'm going to try anyways. I think I'm marked for death despite being told I'm satisfactory. I'm told that they block such things like transfers for people they don't like. I'm going to try writing some web apps and show them to the other departments that do that sort of work; maybe that'll help.

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