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Re: Ask HN: Senior people, how did your career evolve?

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Mid 40s consultant here and just decided not to extend my contract as tech lead with current customer for another year. Looking into meandering for a bit and regaining passion. Hopefully something small but sellable sprouts from that. Looking forward to making my own decisions based on gut and not being stuck in the swamp of big company indecision.

Got any idea what sort of tech you’ll mess around with?

Thinking of exploring and experimenting with some of the local-first hyped technologies.

They’re probably a long way from actually delivering on their promise, but I’m a fan of those promises.

Have a good bit of experience with offline-first solutions which many SMBs kinda need and they’re typically underserved.

Re: Ask HN: Senior people, how did your career evolve?

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> I am a software engineer with about 20 years of experience

I personally don't think years of experience is a relevant number. I'm a median senior software engineer in a big tech company. Most of my teammates are 20-25 years younger than me and have the same level.

I don't have more experience than them for most of the things we do in our job. Whatever I was doing 25 years ago is barely relevant today.

Basically, I still do what've always been doing: try to work on projects I find interesting, keep learning, try to contribute to the best of my abilities.

Re: Ask HN: Senior people, how did your career evolve?

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I was experiencing same, since last six or seven years. Last year I wanted to give cycling a try.

To balance CPU cycles that run in my head which processes information out of monitor in the physical world.

Theory is that, our field is an imaginative field and path we take to reach finishing a task does not remember the path we took.

This inturn affects next steps as the judgement or self judgement get weakened.

Attacking this challenge from its fundamental is to mimic the work outside computer.

Example writing, reading codebase after printing out in paper.

This builds a strong memory of size of space of imaginary work in physical space.

While paper printing solve reader writer challenge.

Then how to solve infinite running OS program running on CPU cycles?

Hence bicycle.

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