This bears no resemblance at all to my experience over 26 years of doing this professionally. I've always found it enjoyable, and never stressful. My advice is:
Never estimate
Ignore arbitrary deadlines
Question everything
Try to be as involved as possible with actually designing the stuff you build
Avoid mindless donkey work coding tasks whenever you can - they'll grind you down
I am avid programming with more than 7 years creating software solutions for different problems. Obsessed with perfection, code with the best elegance posible trying to make my code easy readable.
Yeah, it's only a real point of view. Working for a startup if not the same that working for one of the biggest international software consultant. Focus on not estimating will allow you to lose your time a lot. I'm proud of that 😁.
I really appreciate your comment, everyone has different opinions.
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This bears no resemblance at all to my experience over 26 years of doing this professionally. I've always found it enjoyable, and never stressful. My advice is:
Yeah, it's only a real point of view. Working for a startup if not the same that working for one of the biggest international software consultant. Focus on not estimating will allow you to lose your time a lot. I'm proud of that 😁.
I really appreciate your comment, everyone has different opinions.