Saturday, November 28, 2020

Ask HN: Did you have early career doubts?

I'm not a bad developer, but to be honest, programming was never my passion. I took CS after high-school for pragmatic reasons.

I spent 5 years in school, got several degrees including an MSc in Computer Science. And I have been working professionally as a developer / "software engineer" (big air-quotes) for the past 5 years.

I'm in my (very) late 20s and I can't imagine doing this for the rest of my life. But the only other path seems to be management right now. And that sounds even worse.

I feel like I'm stuck on this path, and stepping out would mean financial ruin. I'm based in Europe, so my salary has been pretty modest.

Is this a regular 30s-life-crises? Did you have similar doubts at this point of your career/life? What did you do?


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