I'm not coding right now and ..I'm sick for that
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I've been working in a company for one year, I'm Windows/windows CE system and application developer and I used to work a lot of win Win32 API stuff and Smart device develoment by using C-Sharp as well, things that I really loved to do, but righ now must part of my job is about changing strings in resource files (sic), merge code on Clear Case and send e-mails to other guys solve bugs, and that's really boring to me. I can consider my self well paid for that, but some months ago I started thinking about moving to another company. Just one detail, I'm 37 years old and I've worked for 10 years as developer, how can I say, this is my passion on the IT field, so I don't know if now is better to move, wait for a chance on the same company or just staty where I'm because it's time to grow up (coding is just for kids ))) and move on to a manager carrer) I'm asking you because I've heard that in other counties the developer job is really longer than here in my country, I see a lot of middle age programmers, senior developers doing what they really like to do. So my single question is, what would you do, if you were in my shoes? I'm from Brazil, sorry for poor english.
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I've been working in a company for one year, I'm Windows/windows CE system and application developer and I used to work a lot of win Win32 API stuff and Smart device develoment by using C-Sharp as well, things that I really loved to do, but righ now must part of my job is about changing strings in resource files (sic), merge code on Clear Case and send e-mails to other guys solve bugs, and that's really boring to me. I can consider my self well paid for that, but some months ago I started thinking about moving to another company. Just one detail, I'm 37 years old and I've worked for 10 years as developer, how can I say, this is my passion on the IT field, so I don't know if now is better to move, wait for a chance on the same company or just staty where I'm because it's time to grow up (coding is just for kids ))) and move on to a manager carrer) I'm asking you because I've heard that in other counties the developer job is really longer than here in my country, I see a lot of middle age programmers, senior developers doing what they really like to do. So my single question is, what would you do, if you were in my shoes? I'm from Brazil, sorry for poor english.
If you enjoy coding, and want to keep coding, and are good at coding, then go for it! Probably not the best time to switch jobs, so make sure you don't resign from your current one until you have lined up another job to go to!
Knowledge is knowing that the tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad!! Booger Mobile - Camp Quality esCarpade 2010
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I've been working in a company for one year, I'm Windows/windows CE system and application developer and I used to work a lot of win Win32 API stuff and Smart device develoment by using C-Sharp as well, things that I really loved to do, but righ now must part of my job is about changing strings in resource files (sic), merge code on Clear Case and send e-mails to other guys solve bugs, and that's really boring to me. I can consider my self well paid for that, but some months ago I started thinking about moving to another company. Just one detail, I'm 37 years old and I've worked for 10 years as developer, how can I say, this is my passion on the IT field, so I don't know if now is better to move, wait for a chance on the same company or just staty where I'm because it's time to grow up (coding is just for kids ))) and move on to a manager carrer) I'm asking you because I've heard that in other counties the developer job is really longer than here in my country, I see a lot of middle age programmers, senior developers doing what they really like to do. So my single question is, what would you do, if you were in my shoes? I'm from Brazil, sorry for poor english.
Moving into another company will be a big mistake now. I think you should wait for some more time so u get a chance to move into a higher level.
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I've been working in a company for one year, I'm Windows/windows CE system and application developer and I used to work a lot of win Win32 API stuff and Smart device develoment by using C-Sharp as well, things that I really loved to do, but righ now must part of my job is about changing strings in resource files (sic), merge code on Clear Case and send e-mails to other guys solve bugs, and that's really boring to me. I can consider my self well paid for that, but some months ago I started thinking about moving to another company. Just one detail, I'm 37 years old and I've worked for 10 years as developer, how can I say, this is my passion on the IT field, so I don't know if now is better to move, wait for a chance on the same company or just staty where I'm because it's time to grow up (coding is just for kids ))) and move on to a manager carrer) I'm asking you because I've heard that in other counties the developer job is really longer than here in my country, I see a lot of middle age programmers, senior developers doing what they really like to do. So my single question is, what would you do, if you were in my shoes? I'm from Brazil, sorry for poor english.
Your English is excellent - far better than many here who were raised in it - so stop worrying about it (but do keep working at it). I'm nearly 20 years older than you, and except for a brief 12 years of hell doing boring stuff because I had to, I've spent about 40 years working. I can tell you from experience that the longest, most miserable years of your life will be those doing work you find dull. When I was young and dumb I thought money was the end all, and I did things that were less than optimum just to get that extra cash in my pocket. I'm not sure where all that cash went, but I certainly don't have it today. What I do have today is a job I look forward to doing most every day, even though it pays $10K a year less than I made 20 years ago, and my standard of living is 50% lower than it was then. I wouldn't trade it for anything less enjoyable. I don't know from your post whether there's any realistic hope that this phase will end and you'll be allowed to be a developer again, so I can't advise you about leaving or staying. Sometimes all companies have to retrench and employ their talent in less than ideal roles, just to keep from laying them off. Good companies will do their best to make that time as short as possible; bad ones will stick you where you are forever and let you rot. Only you can determine which kind of company you're working for. My only advice is, if you don't enjoy what your're doing, and there's little likelihood of your role changing, get the hell out before it kills your spirit. If this is only a temporary measure because they must, stick around and see where it leads. Whatever you do, don't opt for management until you're ready to hang up your keyboard! If you're not ready to leave the developer role, you'll be a lousy manager. I know - it was done to me once. Managers who are not ready to leave developing behind are a plague that disrupts the whole team. They want to jump in and 'help' but can't devote the time and energy required to complete a project because of the many distractions that managers have to deal with. It's a recipe for disaster. Do what you love - if you can look forward to doing it with the current employer in a reasonable time, stick with them and prove that you're a team player. If not, move on to someplace where your talent will be appreciated and utilized, and don't worry too much about the size of the paycheck. These things have a way of working themselves out. Good luck to you...
"A Journey of a Thousand Res
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Your English is excellent - far better than many here who were raised in it - so stop worrying about it (but do keep working at it). I'm nearly 20 years older than you, and except for a brief 12 years of hell doing boring stuff because I had to, I've spent about 40 years working. I can tell you from experience that the longest, most miserable years of your life will be those doing work you find dull. When I was young and dumb I thought money was the end all, and I did things that were less than optimum just to get that extra cash in my pocket. I'm not sure where all that cash went, but I certainly don't have it today. What I do have today is a job I look forward to doing most every day, even though it pays $10K a year less than I made 20 years ago, and my standard of living is 50% lower than it was then. I wouldn't trade it for anything less enjoyable. I don't know from your post whether there's any realistic hope that this phase will end and you'll be allowed to be a developer again, so I can't advise you about leaving or staying. Sometimes all companies have to retrench and employ their talent in less than ideal roles, just to keep from laying them off. Good companies will do their best to make that time as short as possible; bad ones will stick you where you are forever and let you rot. Only you can determine which kind of company you're working for. My only advice is, if you don't enjoy what your're doing, and there's little likelihood of your role changing, get the hell out before it kills your spirit. If this is only a temporary measure because they must, stick around and see where it leads. Whatever you do, don't opt for management until you're ready to hang up your keyboard! If you're not ready to leave the developer role, you'll be a lousy manager. I know - it was done to me once. Managers who are not ready to leave developing behind are a plague that disrupts the whole team. They want to jump in and 'help' but can't devote the time and energy required to complete a project because of the many distractions that managers have to deal with. It's a recipe for disaster. Do what you love - if you can look forward to doing it with the current employer in a reasonable time, stick with them and prove that you're a team player. If not, move on to someplace where your talent will be appreciated and utilized, and don't worry too much about the size of the paycheck. These things have a way of working themselves out. Good luck to you...
"A Journey of a Thousand Res
Great thanks for your advice!!! I was hired to work as embedded developer, the job description was really clear about that, but manytimes, managers just hide some important information to keep the job more atractive, so, it was a lesson learned to me, you have to discuss carefully about what you're gonna do before starting in a new company, and must important, make it clear to people that will maybe hire you :)))
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Moving into another company will be a big mistake now. I think you should wait for some more time so u get a chance to move into a higher level.
Yeap, I have already concerned about that, that's why I'm still working here :(
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Great thanks for your advice!!! I was hired to work as embedded developer, the job description was really clear about that, but manytimes, managers just hide some important information to keep the job more atractive, so, it was a lesson learned to me, you have to discuss carefully about what you're gonna do before starting in a new company, and must important, make it clear to people that will maybe hire you :)))
I really don't think anybody is hired to do a specific job. may be there are jobs like that. but in an IT Industry especially if you are in the service industry i dont think you can stick onto a particular technology. You force yourself to work on other things like documentation and testing and make yourself busy. there will be lot of people watching you.
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I've been working in a company for one year, I'm Windows/windows CE system and application developer and I used to work a lot of win Win32 API stuff and Smart device develoment by using C-Sharp as well, things that I really loved to do, but righ now must part of my job is about changing strings in resource files (sic), merge code on Clear Case and send e-mails to other guys solve bugs, and that's really boring to me. I can consider my self well paid for that, but some months ago I started thinking about moving to another company. Just one detail, I'm 37 years old and I've worked for 10 years as developer, how can I say, this is my passion on the IT field, so I don't know if now is better to move, wait for a chance on the same company or just staty where I'm because it's time to grow up (coding is just for kids ))) and move on to a manager carrer) I'm asking you because I've heard that in other counties the developer job is really longer than here in my country, I see a lot of middle age programmers, senior developers doing what they really like to do. So my single question is, what would you do, if you were in my shoes? I'm from Brazil, sorry for poor english.
Don't think I've worked anywhere where more time has been spent coding compared to gathering requirements from the customer, meetings, answering phone calls, looking at someone elses code in some area of the system I've just been moved onto, etc. I think I usually spend less than half an hour of a typical day actually writing code. And many times that's 28 minutes figuring out what to change to make a certain thing work and 2 minutes actually making the change.
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Don't think I've worked anywhere where more time has been spent coding compared to gathering requirements from the customer, meetings, answering phone calls, looking at someone elses code in some area of the system I've just been moved onto, etc. I think I usually spend less than half an hour of a typical day actually writing code. And many times that's 28 minutes figuring out what to change to make a certain thing work and 2 minutes actually making the change.
I think I can do more than create MUI files, translate strings and send e-mails. Some people really doesn't matter about doing any kind of job if they receive a good check at the end of the month, but is not my case, and also I can see a lot of guys working with cool stuffs around, so Why I can't do the same? I'll move me.
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I think I can do more than create MUI files, translate strings and send e-mails. Some people really doesn't matter about doing any kind of job if they receive a good check at the end of the month, but is not my case, and also I can see a lot of guys working with cool stuffs around, so Why I can't do the same? I'll move me.
yeah bugs me too, makes the day drag on longer and I feel tired the whole time.