How to Screw Up Your Life by Getting Promoted
6th March 2013
Building something interesting requires a surplus of time and money. Salaried jobs provide neither. Unless the job itself is your dream, stay the fuck away from them.
This applies to IT especially. Information Technology is a New Thing in the world, a field where what you knew five years ago is totally irrelevant to what people expect you to do today — experience isn’t a feature, it’s a bug. You have to spend all of your spare time learning new technologies and brushing up on the more obscure nooks and crannies of current technology; otherwise you will get gob-smacked by some oddity that, OMG, we need right away and I thought you said you knew SQLServer/.Net/Data Warehousing/Web programming/(insert whatever it is you do here)?
So why am I still working in IT? Well, at this point, I really can’t afford to quit….
March 8th, 2013 at 10:29
I have found the average level of technical knowledge has dropped as the rate of change has increased. Most Java programmers seem to bluff their way through and rely on stuff on the internet.