Comment on Software devs, I need advice
RocketBoots@programming.dev 7 months ago
Op, I’ve been in your shoes. If you don’t have the wife and kids, take the risk and follow your heart. You’ll be glad you did.
Comment on Software devs, I need advice
RocketBoots@programming.dev 7 months ago
Op, I’ve been in your shoes. If you don’t have the wife and kids, take the risk and follow your heart. You’ll be glad you did.
Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, I remember doing a pretty standard software eng internship for a cloud services company one summer back in undergrad, and I just found it so dull and uninteresting. It wasn’t even the company’s fault, as the team was great, good work-life balance, and good pay. I just realized through that internship that I truly did not want to work in cloud services or as a bog standard software eng.
Much happier now working as a research engineer in embedded systems, as it’s a field I find genuinely interesting. When you’re young is exactly the time to try to figure out what actually interests you and try to go do that. Spending all day every day writing code to solve problems you find fundamentally uninteresting is a quick route to burnout.
RocketBoots@programming.dev 7 months ago
Seriously. I was in the video game industry and started out at a mid size company. It was the best time of my life. It of university I took a position at a big publisher and quickly rose up. I was miserable though. The money didn’t make up for the way I felt. If I could go back in time I would have lowered my asking and gone with a small outfit.