1. Avoiding Dead-End Jobs
Developers frequently remain in unfulfilling jobs and projects for too long, rationalizing it as just how things are or procrastinating instead of updating their CVs and interviewing.
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0:54 · 23 April 2024
Why Developers Should Never Settle
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for many stay that I see developer position to, it's, you know, sticking in jobs, projects that are dead ends, sticking there for way too long. And I'm the first one guilty of this, I spent a lot of my developer career in places that I didn't really like, in projects that I didn't like, in teams that I didn't really like, because of many different reasons. Sometimes I talked, hey, this is it. It's just a job and uh this is the way it is and I don't think I'll find anything better. It's all the same.
Other times I would just procrastinate instead of doing my CV, going out, interviewing, improving my think skills, I'll be playing some video game and telling myself, hey, you know, one day I will figure it out. So, if I would go back in time and I would tell that person something it's, hey, you can do better. Get the hell out of here. If you don't like the project, you don't like the team, don't waste your time, don't procrastinate, make a plan and get out of there. Don't stick too long in bad places.