I have been a programmer for forty years. Even so, I have made a breakthrough in software development and feel that in some ways my adventure is just beginning.
I am kept humble because I don't belong. I live with extreme job mismatch.
I work in a field that I do not belong in. I don't belong in software development, and there is no other field I belong in - maybe data science but since I have made a breakthrough in software development, I sort of have a responsibility to see it through.
I have a very low level of inductive reasoning aptitude and most software developers have a very high level. So other software developers see me instinctively as not one of them. My mind works very differently. The field I belong in does not seem to exist yet. So I tend to get assigned work that I do not do well. And teams and managers do not ask me for the work I actually do well. So I get assigned the grunt work, the low value work, the extremely simple work and the work that is wrong for me.
No one else seems to understand the work I do or the value I bring. On rare occasions I save the company. Most of the time however teams and managers demand that I provide very little value. This keeps me humble. I also feel frustrated and screaming in pain because I know I can provide so much more to benefit people and because the work I do is so very much lower value than I can provide. Or is so very much harder than I can do.
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I am kept humble because I don't belong. I live with extreme job mismatch.
I work in a field that I do not belong in. I don't belong in software development, and there is no other field I belong in - maybe data science but since I have made a breakthrough in software development, I sort of have a responsibility to see it through.
I have a very low level of inductive reasoning aptitude and most software developers have a very high level. So other software developers see me instinctively as not one of them. My mind works very differently. The field I belong in does not seem to exist yet. So I tend to get assigned work that I do not do well. And teams and managers do not ask me for the work I actually do well. So I get assigned the grunt work, the low value work, the extremely simple work and the work that is wrong for me.
No one else seems to understand the work I do or the value I bring. On rare occasions I save the company. Most of the time however teams and managers demand that I provide very little value. This keeps me humble. I also feel frustrated and screaming in pain because I know I can provide so much more to benefit people and because the work I do is so very much lower value than I can provide. Or is so very much harder than I can do.