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On Being a Junior Developer

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Re: On Being a Junior Developer

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You're preaching the virtues of submission. Don't let others make you feel this way. - Making mistakes will kill you, when you sit at home working on your personal projects and a bug slips through, it's not so bad, you can fix them and the client (or yourself) is normally pretty cool with it. On the other hand, when it's someone elses fault, E.G. yourself, your boss will come down hard on you. That's his project, his…

Currently, moving to London isn't possible for me, I've been with my girlfriend for 3 years now and I have to take that in to account when relocating is considered. That aside, I agree with a lot of what you've said, I'm currently feeling pretty shitty about my job and actively seeking work elsewhere (and being interviewed, etc). Out of curiosity, why do you propose a relocation to London?

> Currently, moving to London isn't possible for me, I've been with my girlfriend for 3 years now and I have to take that in to account when relocating is considered.

Move to London together, perhaps? You can probably make more alone there, than your two wages together at the moment. (Add in a London job for her, and it becomes even better.)

Re: On Being a Junior Developer

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I'm also a 'Junior Developer'(around 2yr) and am currently in the phase where I have started to see the faults in the systems my seniors design. There's a module that's driving me nuts, and I'm still pondering on how to tell the senior developer(who wrote it) that it's crap, over engineered and too specific. The module works to an extent, but I can see problems up ahead if the module doesn't get fixed or an alternati…

I'm German. I have been living and working in Cambridge, UK, for three years for my first job, and just moved to Singapore to start my second one. Feel free to ask me more specific questions, either here or send an email. (Address is in the profile.)

Re: On Being a Junior Developer

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post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're preaching the virtues of submission. Don't let others make you feel this way. - Making mistakes will kill you, when you sit at home working on your personal projects and a bug slips through, it's not so bad, you can fix them and the client (or yourself) is normally pretty cool with it. On the other hand, when it's someone elses fault, E.G. yourself, your boss will come down hard on you. That's his project, his…

Currently, moving to London isn't possible for me, I've been with my girlfriend for 3 years now and I have to take that in to account when relocating is considered. That aside, I agree with a lot of what you've said, I'm currently feeling pretty shitty about my job and actively seeking work elsewhere (and being interviewed, etc). Out of curiosity, why do you propose a relocation to London?

Don't feel shitty. Concentrate on what you can achieve on a personal level: programming languages you want to know, projects you want to start, and very importantly attitudes with others that you want to hold.

But understand that while you might be able to become great, you're in Lancashire. There aren't going to be as many big deals going on there.

A developer in London can make it big.

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