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Ask HN: How would you restart your software engineering career if you could?

5 pointsby AliveShinealmost 2 years ago
If you had the time&#x2F;resources&#x2F;money (whatever) to reboot your journey in tech, how would you go about it?<p>Is there anything that you think that if you do this time, you would be better than what you are right now?<p>I&#x27;ll start a. I would tinker more. I am horrible at it. b. I would probably start as a sys admin. I think sys admins or devops or infrastructure or platform engineering or whatever it is, is really interesting and has high impact in any organisation.

4 comments

jkmcfalmost 2 years ago
I&#x27;d have acted on my (relatively low-effort) ideas that turned out to be profitable when others actually did follow through.<p>I do wish things had conspired so that I was a little later in the evolution of web development rather than the very beginning -- there&#x27;s a big difference between 1992 and 1998.
skepticATXalmost 2 years ago
I became a dev in (at least how I saw it) the age of breadth being more valuable than depth.<p>Now it seems that we are shifting to depth being (much) more valuable than breadth. So, I think I’d focus on becoming an expert in something instead of being a generalist.
jmkralmost 2 years ago
With time, resources, and money, I&#x27;d get a masters. If money allowed me to live better than a ph.d student life, I&#x27;d strongly consider it.
readonthegoappalmost 2 years ago
Start my own business earlier.