userthrow5581

Re:Ask HN: Is it reasonable to be a generalist programmer for your ent... on Saturday May 05, 2018 @07:42PM (#17004490)

I have no strong interest in any particular niche, other than maybe embedded and graphics programming and those have a high barrier to entry. You generally don't find too many jobs much less junior level jobs in those fields.

What has happened in my career is, I have brought myself up to what I admit to be an "expert beginner"... through jobs that have been mostly lonely and unfulfilling experiences for a programmer (not a whole lot of experienced peers to network and learn from). So life has given me lemons, might as well find out how to make lemonade from them.

Ask HN: Is it reasonable to be a generalist programmer for your entire career?

Posted by userthrow5581 on Saturday May 05, 2018 @06:15PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm curious about this for my own personal reasons. I currently am working with 10 years of experience, graduated a little later than other students at 26 and that was when I started my career. I consider myself to be more or less a generalist with no extreme pros or cons. But, with 10 years of experience a lot of places consider my lack of expert knowledge in any particular area to be a con.I...

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