Ask HN: Would you still do software engineering/dev if you could do it all over?

#1

Post by react_burger38 » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 2:52 PM UTC

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Post by rurban » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 3:01 PM UTC

Sure. Tried a lot of others, still the best. Just avoid toxic communities.

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Post by sloaken » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 4:41 PM UTC

I took a programming class when I was 15. At that point I knew what I wa doing the rest of my life. 40 years later, I still love it. I do not know if I will ever retire.

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Post by jrm2k6 » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 4:55 PM UTC

Yes, but I will start earlier. I think I could be in a better place if I would start coding before college instead of getting the hook of it on my last year of studies.

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Post by squirrelicus » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 4:59 PM UTC

Absolutely. It's the best job.

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Post by IdiocyInAction » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 5:03 PM UTC

No, I would have done EE/Math instead.

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Post by whorleater » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 5:11 PM UTC

No, I would've tried harder in school and tried for med school instead

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Post by Topgamer7 » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 5:29 PM UTC

sloaken wrote: post #3

I took a programming class when I was 15. At that point I knew what I wa doing the rest of my life. 40 years later, I still love it. I do not know if I will ever retire.

The question what do you want to do after high school was never hard for me, started programming at 12. Still going at 26, sometimes my drive wanes, but I find that due to the project, not programming in general.

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Post by badasstronaut » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 5:31 PM UTC

I think development is one of the coolest jobs out there. With dev skills, you can do everything from building websites to physics models to game development to data science... I'm not saying all you need is coding, but you can't do most of these things without code!

I'm not 100% sure I would be a software engineer, but I can't imagine myself on a career path that didn't involve writing tons of code.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 5:32 PM UTC

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