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by montbonnot
3730 days ago
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Welcome to my life. Where you're at right now is where I was not a while ago. So it's too early for me to tell you it's awesome just quit and go on your own... Though, I've worked as a SWE for 10 years going from junior all the the way up to staff level. At the end I was working for one of the best companies out there doing %80 bug fixing versus %20 feature work. %100 Micro-managed and absolutely zero motivation/innovation/future/control/independence. I quit and started making Apps. Again, it's too early to say that it was the best decision of my life. But here is my only advice for people like you: You're a SWE, the world needs SWE/developers/coder depends how you call it. There are not enough SWE in this world at the moment. So, you're set... This is something you've acquired already, why do you want to spend the next 10 years doing the same thing and not learning anything else? Now, look at Berkley university for example. They received $250 million in fundings from the silicon valley in order to help students starting businesses. That's where we're going. More Startups, new ventures, more entrepreneurs etc. This is the next SWE job that is coming faster than you think. Go out there and go learn how to be an entrepreneur and do it NOW. If you stay stuck in the corporate world you'll be downgraded to a worker working in a factory in a few years from now. Maybe software will be the Nike and you'll be that 14 years old kid coding in Asia for $1/day (sounded horrible sorry but that's my vision). These kids will write code for us. You'll be more than obsolete. If not, machines will do it for us. So, learning new skills and more specifically entrepreneur skills is crucial. I'd encourage every SWE to jump into the other side before it's too late. We're smarter than anyone else. Companies like Apple, Google, FB, Microsoft were built by people like you and I. Not by some BS product managers hiding in the middle of an organization who has no idea where the money is going... That's what I told myself before I quit. Of course, like you, I have savings and can survive while learning all these awesome things thanks to 10 years of slavery in the corporate world. Good luck and sorry for my crude language. |
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