The traditional career progressions for software developers are management, entrepreneurship, and carpentry.
Ask HN: Tired of software career. What now?
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#12Definitely start applying. When I’ve gotten to this point in my software career before just knowing I wasn’t trapped made me feel much better.
I don’t know how deep you are in your career, but I’m at 20+ years and I’ve felt like this at least 4 or 5 times. I’ve never actually switched companies, but I’ve switched job’s within my company 3-8 times spring depending on how you want to measure a job switch.
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#13For more context, I develop on weekends and I enjoy that because I can tackle problems I find interesting. But I’m yet to find a job I enjoy that makes me feel whole.
You might be asking too much of a job.
Speaking from my own experience, the only times I've ever looked for a job that "made me feel whole" were also the times I felt like other important parts of my life were empty, and I was trying to compensate for that by finding some mythical job that would "complete me."
It's as big a mistake to ask that of a job as it is to ask it of a partner. If you don't show up to the situation already whole, no one person/thing else is going to fix that for you.
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#14I still love software but I couldn't care less about agile, design docs, promos, PIPs, management BS.
As in, I cannot care about the low value management BS that is eating my precious time on this planet.
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#15The traditional career progressions for software developers are management, entrepreneurship, and carpentry.
In that order? :)
Re: Ask HN: Tired of software career. What now?
#16Consider firmware development, if you can get your foot in that door. You’d work on a product rather than a website or service. It might be a different enough experience to keep you sane.
Re: Ask HN: Tired of software career. What now?
#17For more context, I develop on weekends and I enjoy that because I can tackle problems I find interesting. But I’m yet to find a job I enjoy that makes me feel whole.
You might be asking too much of a job. Speaking from my own experience, the only times I've ever looked for a job that "made me feel whole" were also the times I felt like other important parts of my life were empty, and I was trying to compensate for that by finding some mythical job that would "complete me." It's as big a mistake to ask that of a job as it is to ask it of a partner. If you don't show up to the situ…
Very wise
Re: Ask HN: Tired of software career. What now?
#18A break and then a job switch might be what are you are looking for. The problem is you can't usually line up a job for "in 3-6 months time" and you have to have the finances sorted ahead of time.
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#19That's like asking someone "What's going to be my favorite color?"
Only you can answer that.
Re: Ask HN: Tired of software career. What now?
#20That's like asking someone "What's going to be my favorite color?" Only you can answer that.
Even him can not answer it