I personally don't really have such a planning. I don't have a plan in the technical sense, which shows in my career since I've done way too many very different things. If anything, my plan is to work for a company where:
I have the feeling that my work is appreciated.
I have the feeling I contribute to something
the software the company makes has an impact.
what I do makes me happy (education does)
I get challenged
I do not get frustrated on how things go too often.
I don't want to be in a box of doing one particular thing.
I can find all of this at my current job and how I typically look at my future career is that I hope to keep finding this at the company where I work. If that changes my first attempt would be to fix it within the current company. If not I will start looking elsewhere.
In essence, I don't have a grand scheme of where I want to end up in 5 years, I just go with the flow and as long as my work makes me happy, I'm good :). For example, I never envisioned to become a Developer Advocate, it just happened, that decision was taken within one week.
Is this a good idea? Probably not but it worked out fine for me. The downside is that if I am looking for jobs I look for the kind that require you to know a lot of things since I'm obviously not suitable for the kind of job where you need to have 5 years of experience in Svelte (I know, only exists since 3 years, but sometimes the people who write these job descriptions don't know :D). That said, if a specific type of work is your thing and you want to go zone into that one thing, it's a good idea to have a plan on how you will become an expert in it and work towards that while making sure you stay relevant and keep up to date with new technologies.
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I personally don't really have such a planning. I don't have a plan in the technical sense, which shows in my career since I've done way too many very different things. If anything, my plan is to work for a company where:
I guess I'm part of that purpose driven generation: entrepreneur.com/article/346519
I can find all of this at my current job and how I typically look at my future career is that I hope to keep finding this at the company where I work. If that changes my first attempt would be to fix it within the current company. If not I will start looking elsewhere.
In essence, I don't have a grand scheme of where I want to end up in 5 years, I just go with the flow and as long as my work makes me happy, I'm good :). For example, I never envisioned to become a Developer Advocate, it just happened, that decision was taken within one week.
Is this a good idea? Probably not but it worked out fine for me. The downside is that if I am looking for jobs I look for the kind that require you to know a lot of things since I'm obviously not suitable for the kind of job where you need to have 5 years of experience in Svelte (I know, only exists since 3 years, but sometimes the people who write these job descriptions don't know :D). That said, if a specific type of work is your thing and you want to go zone into that one thing, it's a good idea to have a plan on how you will become an expert in it and work towards that while making sure you stay relevant and keep up to date with new technologies.
Wow, great response