I know someone in my family who is mostly unhappy with how his life is going. He's been listening and reading to a lot of self-help material. But I think it's to do with his processing of moral dilemmas, and it's probably holding back his career potential. He could find a better paying job than he's doing right now that he can tolerate, not love, and then go home and do genuine projects for...
Of course, the approach to sell your skills at the right value is the ideal approach, but I am not experienced enough to know exactly where my value is skills-wise. So between erring on overselling or underselling, I always choose underselling.I want to underpromise and overdeliver, but I also need to get job offers so I don't want to let employers down too much with the "underpromise" part....
Especially when said power trip comes from a boss or other higher up role at work.Bullying behavior to display power often comes from feelings of inadequacy. Usually feeling that they'll not be well accepted by others. To me that sounds like impostor syndrome albeit a more destructive way of expressing it. Said person feeling inadequate at their job in a position of leadership and power, so...
How do you make that decision if you're unemployed and your network isn't very strong? Especially if you're in a technically focused career like software development and a lot of employment opportunities might hinge on current skillset.Option 1: Skill up. This implies that you want to make yourself appealing for jobs you believe are better for you, and/or you don't believe there are many jobs...
I'd like to know if an org or collective exists that helps new developers with providing the less concrete, less tangible assets that helps people from falling into career traps, the kinds of traps that make professionals comfortable where they are at and miss red flags or "wake-up calls" because they don't see them.I'm interested in having less experienced people see those things before it...
Currently, the common method in cold applications is to use online job platforms that hosts thousands of job listings and collect millions of applications. Most of the time, applicants are manually picking out the jobs that look interesting to them and then they apply. Sometimes there are shortcut options like LinkedIn's Easy Apply. Some even have used the help of bots to speed up the...
I'm curious about the possibility of the commissioner role for this situation.
From my point of view, the AI is the artist and prompting an AI to produce a specific image is akin to commissioning an artwork.
I think we are beyond human agency, and creation of art is reduced to the simpler constituents, the roles of artist and (if there is one) commissioner. The request to make an artpiece can also come from an AI.
In particular in a hobby like PC building, using a message board for build logs makes sense given the format. And probably other "log/project tracking" sorts of coverage. Like Reddit, you get a free captive audience that requires less effort than blogging about it, but unlike Reddit you can post build updates to bring your topic back to the top without making multiple threads.
Or were they already dying out on their own? I remember Westwood being especially controversial. It's now been closed for years. So has ITT Tech, another big one. Yes, I know bootcamps are also for profit, but maybe their "leanness" has given them some benefits to thrive and become the more attractive and (in most cases) more affordable vocational option?On the other hand I'm surprised DeVry...
The Expert Beginner was in part popularized by this Erik Deitrich article:https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-the-expert-beginner/It feels like it could be a 2-parter, with a follow-up describing methods to get the Expert Beginners to break out but I haven't found it.
I've been thinking about the phrase "time in the market beats timing the market." Not just with investing, but also in career management. After all, that also involves trying to get a greater return on investing your time into some job or skill.But the more I look at the job market in software, the more I see advice for managing a software engineer's career like trying to "beat" the market. I...
I am considering probably Infosys or Accenture, though. I hear their interviews don't go deep and they give some in-house training.
My parents are very blue collar and not from higher education (they haven't even completed their equivalent of high school) but what I share from them is that my outlook on work. I just treat my developer jobs as just that, a job, just to pay the bills. Not as a way to move up beyond an IC role, not to become a lead, not to stay on top of industry trends or news. My dad's been a welder at the...
With students, it's recommended to take an internship before going into their first full-time job for a career. But such a path is less probable for a non-student. Ironically, the self-taught person is expected to apply to jobs with a portfolio which is a greater leap to take, without internships as a stepping stone. A portfolio can be a display of skill. But internships help build a connection...
As a hypothetical, imagine that you are 40, and you are strapped for cash. No retirement funds or other accounts other than a checking account, and you are collecting unemployment. Your first priority may be to get a full-time job for a more stable source of income. At that age, it still doable to retire early with financial independence in 10-15 years? And do you think there is an event...
Job markets can be soul-crushing for inexperienced people and people on the bottom, but it doesn't have to be. What are the job markets and industries that have been on the up-and-up for inexperienced people- the ones that are a buyer's market for entry-level applicants?I'm not necessarily looking for answers that are very tech-related. Even in the supposed "hot" software market, too many...
People who say they don't do programming outside of work hours, I'm kind of surprised at them. I was thinking that I needed to in order to stay on top with marketable skills. But if you don't make software on the side outside of work hours, how do you manage your career in programming so you don't fall off the rails?Were you just lucky enough to get into the right jobs that keep you doing work...
I am thirty seven years old who has been in the field for 11 years on-and-off. This just gives you only an idea of when I started. I have experience in writing web software for various commercial applications. I don't have experience with scalable design, unit testing, continuous development, or agile development methodologies. I am comfortable with the mechanics of writing small programs.In...
Either a new industry, or new innovations in existing industries, creating more low-skill jobs in the same manner that previous industries have done.
Or make the need to work in order to make a living obsolete for many.
I have worked for digital agencies in three instances in my career. I think they are a nice easy way to get your foot in the door and learn how to be self-sufficient because you're required to. I have been exposed to different languages- JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, and C#. But I cannot recommend it for any software engineer that wants to improve their skills in the long run and head into more...
Freelancers, have you done any marketing just through these two channels? And what has worked for you?I've been freelancing on and off for about 4 years now. Usually it's more famine than feast, but I had a consistent freelance job that lasted about 7 months and just ended at the end of February.Now I'm trying to find more work. In the past, I tended to go on Reddit or Slack channels related to...
And why or why not? I'm still a bit confused as to where exactly do these agencies fall in as an industry.Ostensibly they seem like a software company, in that their main source of revenue from building websites or apps for different clients. Client wants a piece of software, agency builds that software for them.On the other hand, they are highly "sales-driven". The sales process feels tightly...
This question can apply to any theoretical situation with a person that describes the above. Their past experience is mostly relevant to the jobs they interview for. But for some reason, despite demonstrating knowledge to prove their experience, they cannot pass anymore interviews.Suppose you were able to fill in a paid job for them immediately. That job is whatever you choose. If you had a...
You are actually right about that. I do not have a robust network. It could be a negative, but I also learn that you don't have to allow negative traits to define you, or your worth.
I have learned this from someone else who works as a software professional, who is bipolar and depressed. He also works at a fortune 500 making 6 figures, and takes on leadership responsibilities. He says that he hates himself, but loves his wife, and that despite being antisocial, it doesn't have to dominate him.
He also says his personality and social network does not affect his ability to work, and he works hard for his team. If he can do it despite his shortcomings, so can I. Dwelling on your negative qualities are a distraction, and incorrectly convinces you that your negatives have to commandeer your self-worth.
I will need to follow in this guy's footsteps. Forget about my lack of a network as something that defines me. I have to play to my strengths, and downplay my weaknesses.
What are some examples of this?
More importantly I want to know if you read the content of my post, and what are your thoughts on that content and your personal reflection of it.