Have a good one y'all!
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(from balmy-ish snow-less Montréal) Have a good 2024 y'all. Be good to your loved ones, friends and family and pets :) in the new year. A weird year ended for me. Lost my (20 year) job in February; got a new one in October. I was lucky to be able to spend a few months in a forced "sabbatical". Tried to figure out what I wanted to do with my life (not sure I have all that figured out yet) I think I found a good job that will get me up to retirement. I left a high pressure private sector job in engineering for a (semi) public sector job in the educational domain. Still working in C++ but it's not cutting edge; lot of maintenance; lot of antiquated code. I have a lot of things to learn, especially related to the domain. With my experience I hope I will be able to bring better coding practices to my team. :rose:
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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(from balmy-ish snow-less Montréal) Have a good 2024 y'all. Be good to your loved ones, friends and family and pets :) in the new year. A weird year ended for me. Lost my (20 year) job in February; got a new one in October. I was lucky to be able to spend a few months in a forced "sabbatical". Tried to figure out what I wanted to do with my life (not sure I have all that figured out yet) I think I found a good job that will get me up to retirement. I left a high pressure private sector job in engineering for a (semi) public sector job in the educational domain. Still working in C++ but it's not cutting edge; lot of maintenance; lot of antiquated code. I have a lot of things to learn, especially related to the domain. With my experience I hope I will be able to bring better coding practices to my team. :rose:
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
Good luck with the new gig. Have a prosperous New Year.
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(from balmy-ish snow-less Montréal) Have a good 2024 y'all. Be good to your loved ones, friends and family and pets :) in the new year. A weird year ended for me. Lost my (20 year) job in February; got a new one in October. I was lucky to be able to spend a few months in a forced "sabbatical". Tried to figure out what I wanted to do with my life (not sure I have all that figured out yet) I think I found a good job that will get me up to retirement. I left a high pressure private sector job in engineering for a (semi) public sector job in the educational domain. Still working in C++ but it's not cutting edge; lot of maintenance; lot of antiquated code. I have a lot of things to learn, especially related to the domain. With my experience I hope I will be able to bring better coding practices to my team. :rose:
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
You must be a very valuable developer for them to keep you for 20 years. Good luck, and happy new year!
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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(from balmy-ish snow-less Montréal) Have a good 2024 y'all. Be good to your loved ones, friends and family and pets :) in the new year. A weird year ended for me. Lost my (20 year) job in February; got a new one in October. I was lucky to be able to spend a few months in a forced "sabbatical". Tried to figure out what I wanted to do with my life (not sure I have all that figured out yet) I think I found a good job that will get me up to retirement. I left a high pressure private sector job in engineering for a (semi) public sector job in the educational domain. Still working in C++ but it's not cutting edge; lot of maintenance; lot of antiquated code. I have a lot of things to learn, especially related to the domain. With my experience I hope I will be able to bring better coding practices to my team. :rose:
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
Maximilien wrote:
Lost my (20 year) job
There's a lot of that going around.
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(from balmy-ish snow-less Montréal) Have a good 2024 y'all. Be good to your loved ones, friends and family and pets :) in the new year. A weird year ended for me. Lost my (20 year) job in February; got a new one in October. I was lucky to be able to spend a few months in a forced "sabbatical". Tried to figure out what I wanted to do with my life (not sure I have all that figured out yet) I think I found a good job that will get me up to retirement. I left a high pressure private sector job in engineering for a (semi) public sector job in the educational domain. Still working in C++ but it's not cutting edge; lot of maintenance; lot of antiquated code. I have a lot of things to learn, especially related to the domain. With my experience I hope I will be able to bring better coding practices to my team. :rose:
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
Happy New Year from the Pacific Coast (White Rock BC), where it was a balmy 15C yesterday... I hope your new gig goes well. I too have had my share of job changes as a sw dev (less than a year with Kodak when I got laid off as they went into bankruptcy protection...) and you just need to roll with the punches. But I love what I do and would not change very much with my career...
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You must be a very valuable developer for them to keep you for 20 years. Good luck, and happy new year!
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
You must be a very valuable developer for them to keep you for 20 years.
In this field, if they keep you for 10 years (or heck, even 5) you know you're invaluable, so they might as well keep you around for as long as they can pay you. Getting a developer familiar enough with a code base to change it without breaking it is costly. You stick with those employees who know their way around. After a while a junior developer might be cheaper in terms of compensation, but in terms of productivity, you should always stick with the old timers--you don't cut costs by getting rid of those people. That's an expensive lesson for those who need to learn it.
