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by austin-cheney
863 days ago
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Jobs that are hard to fill will often teach you how to program, because it’s a better value for the employer to burn money on the right people on that education ramp up than spending equivalent time and money finding a less strong fit whom is already trained. This is the position I am in. Last year I was laid off from a job writing JavaScript. I made a promise to myself to never write JavaScript as an employee ever again. A different group eventually picked me up to learn something unrelated just because I had all the required criteria and 15 years of experience writing software. I have chosen to abandon writing JavaScript after 15 years because it’s extremely immature. I love the language and what you can do with it but most people writing JavaScript professionally absolutely hate writing software. They tend to be interested primarily in code vanity and tools because they are insecure about writing original code. If I were interested primarily in trends and fashion I wouldn’t write code for a living. Beware of people claiming to want to do something, such as write code, but actually hate doing it. |
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