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"I feel I should know modern frameworks like Rails and Angular to have a better appeal but it would take months before I get proficient in them" The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today.
Your sentence "[...] out of 8 hours, I barely write code for 2 hours" contrasts with the next sentence: "[...] but this job barely leaves me any time to do so." I am probably misinterpreting, but if you wanted to buy some time I would have thought this meant accepting this job to pay the bills, and then outside of work hours picking up other skills to create some interesting things, which sounds like the right way to…
The main problem is exhaustion. The queer thing about jobs out here is that in name "flexible timings" there is complete lack of schedule. Everyone comes around 11AM and stay till 7-7:30. I reach home by 8 and I am completely spent. Weekends are better but I don't feel I am progressing enough to have a good job.
"I feel I should know modern frameworks like Rails and Angular to have a better appeal but it would take months before I get proficient in them" The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today.
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The main problem is exhaustion. The queer thing about jobs out here is that in name "flexible timings" there is complete lack of schedule. Everyone comes around 11AM and stay till 7-7:30. I reach home by 8 and I am completely spent. Weekends are better but I don't feel I am progressing enough to have a good job.
Been there. Shift your hours back to 9-5. Helps considerably. You don't lose the evening then. Gives you something to live for.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The main problem is exhaustion. The queer thing about jobs out here is that in name "flexible timings" there is complete lack of schedule. Everyone comes around 11AM and stay till 7-7:30. I reach home by 8 and I am completely spent. Weekends are better but I don't feel I am progressing enough to have a good job.
Been there. Shift your hours back to 9-5. Helps considerably. You don't lose the evening then. Gives you something to live for.
Half of you probably just said, "yeah right!" but you might be surprised. I was a dedicated morning-hater until I got a little older (like into my 30s) and started sleeping better (sometimes).
Best part about working/exercising in the early morning hours is that nobody bothers you. No sales calls, social obligations, etc. (Edit: Unless you have kids and need to get them ready for school, of course...)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The main problem is exhaustion. The queer thing about jobs out here is that in name "flexible timings" there is complete lack of schedule. Everyone comes around 11AM and stay till 7-7:30. I reach home by 8 and I am completely spent. Weekends are better but I don't feel I am progressing enough to have a good job.
Been there. Shift your hours back to 9-5. Helps considerably. You don't lose the evening then. Gives you something to live for.
Reserve your passion, creativity, and imagination for the people who care, even if that's just you. Don't learn anything based on what you think other people might want to know. Learn what you need to know to do what you love. If you can't somehow telegraph to a prospective employer that you can invest your passion into something, it won't matter what you know. Bitter, jaded, burnt-out people don't get nice jobs.
i could have written this. our "designer"/self-professed "front end guru" does everything wrong. everything. i've had to teach her what javascript callbacks, closures, constructor functions, and hoisting are. she's rolling her own "front end framework" (table-based layouts with a few breakpoints thrown in) and separates the code into dozens (dozens) of different CSS and JS files. i'm also getting paid shit wages. but…
Part of being a good at frontend is bringing the biggest lift to the team overall and making their jobs as easy as possible. So many people will be touching your code at some point, so I go out of my way to make their interactions as painless as possible.
I think with frontend development in particular, it's really easy to get some people that are really unqualified. Hopefully this is changing, but I feel like a decent amount of people sell some serious snake oil because some of it bleeds into soft skills.
Your sentence "[...] out of 8 hours, I barely write code for 2 hours" contrasts with the next sentence: "[...] but this job barely leaves me any time to do so." I am probably misinterpreting, but if you wanted to buy some time I would have thought this meant accepting this job to pay the bills, and then outside of work hours picking up other skills to create some interesting things, which sounds like the right way to…
The main problem is exhaustion. The queer thing about jobs out here is that in name "flexible timings" there is complete lack of schedule. Everyone comes around 11AM and stay till 7-7:30. I reach home by 8 and I am completely spent. Weekends are better but I don't feel I am progressing enough to have a good job.
I think you can make most any coding job fun if you do it right. Are you interested in making things better? Adding CRUD? Bake in a better object layer to the data store. Front end developer a n00b? Just out do him with some nice Angular or jQuery on the next project. "Oh, I already added the UI stuff."
If you can't learn something just for the purpose of learning (and why are you putting that limitation on yourself - buck up) do it on your own time and then bring it to work. Make everyone else look bad. Make your employer happy. Then get good at the new shiznit so you can quit and get a better job.