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mollet7

Me fall on this Bosses don’t change. Many of us are a bit lazy when it comes to changing jobs, and some are afraid. And then we tend to think that it’s not so bad after all — only to realize a few weeks later that nothing changed and it’s still bad. I have full time job as IT SUPPORT, i get little time to code.

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Kayinajah Inyang

Very true 💯 • I hope this article helped

Thank you 😃

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Tanmay Banerjee • Edited

I was Unix Admin for 1.5 year which was the start of my IT career ......

within the last five months I was just pissed off with the work and work culture....

Though it was technical, I was allowed to write shell scripts where I found opportunity to apply my coding skills but first of all my efforts were not considered to be that great and ignored in a way that made me feel embarrassed and secondly I wanted to be a full time developer ...

So one day I had a heated up discussion with my manager for many reasons and that was the time that made me take the correct decision of my life ... I did resign on that day itself ... :)

I was in notice period for one month ... during the first week of the month I got involved in a job fraud and lost a huge amount of money ... but within the third week I ended up being a full time web developer .... :)

I learned react in the first week of my developer role .... applied for 2 months or so .. on the 3rd month I trained the new joiners in react and redux. On the fifth month I was given the opportunity to technically interview software testers ... I interviewed almost 100 candidates .... :D ... I was able to get these opportunities because it was a start up ...

But then they were not ready to hike my salary up to what they promised on joining that they will do If I show a progress ... I was being paid very less compared to what I was doing ... and then the drama started .... everything changed ... all of my ideas were ignored as if I didn't exist ... After all if they considered they had to hike my salary up .. :D ...

After serving for 1.2 years I landed up with a new job as a backend developer which I was prohibited in the startup... I got my salary doubled ...

Right now I am holding the confidence that I am on my way to build my own app ...handling eveything by myself ... data modelling , system designing ... everything ... about which I was told by the director of my previous startup company that it's not an easy task to do and he is able to because he had 25 years of experience and I had to wait for 25 years to do those ... :D ... I was like I am in 21st century ... I cannot bear this ...

All this said to encourage you ... if you have passion just find the way out and live your designed life ... :) all the best ...