I work as a Salesforce Developer. I have been programming since I was 9, I like Javascript, Python and Game Development. I write articles in dev.to too!
Definitely calls. Since very young I have hated having phone calls, and after having a job which would call me on my free time to go to work again it only got worse :(
Down time. Both if the server for the app I'm working on goes down or needs to go down, and if there isn't much work to do.
I constantly have anxiety over being replaced, even though I know I'm good enough for the job.
I recall in college I was out having a drink with friends and I snuck a peak at my phone to check Google Analytics. I had this real moment of "Damn, am I going to be sneaking peaks at analytics for the rest of my career? Is this my life now?"
So far: Yes.
That's been the steady thing. Any period of downtime anxiety is probably 100x worse in the moment.
Not having a monthly paycheck as a freelancer, and thus having complete control over my income is the scariest thing ever. If I get sick, or my ADHD becomes more of an issue (like it has done over the last 6 months), I just make no/less money and it's pretty scary
I worry about the areas I choose to dive deep in. I have no problem sitting down and studying. I worry whether I’ve chosen the right languages, the right area of CS, and the right position on the tech stack.
I worry that writing tech blogs is a form of procrastination for me. Even though I learn so much while researching, coding, and putting them together.
However, providing value to the community is very rewarding and can’t really be measured 😊
Currently: Picked up a call center tech support gig while looking for a developer role - tech support isn't unusual to me, but I hate being on calls.
In development: Getting anxious/nervous, particularly during interviews, causing me to freeze up and sound like I know absolutely nothing about development.
100% yes on the interviews! I always end up freezing and it's awful.
It's why if there's ever a technical component, I ask if I can take it home with me. Because otherwise it's going to take me 2 hours and be riddled with mistakes because I'm just so nervous I can't think.
My job is all around designing a product these days and the pressure to have a robust, multi tenant, scalable, cloud native app is just overwhelming most times
My current English skills. I'm not a native speaker, my knowledge is not well and I have many problems with it cuz for me easier to use my native language than English.
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Definitely calls. Since very young I have hated having phone calls, and after having a job which would call me on my free time to go to work again it only got worse :(
Down time. Both if the server for the app I'm working on goes down or needs to go down, and if there isn't much work to do.
I constantly have anxiety over being replaced, even though I know I'm good enough for the job.
My job: entrepreneur.
I recall in college I was out having a drink with friends and I snuck a peak at my phone to check Google Analytics. I had this real moment of "Damn, am I going to be sneaking peaks at analytics for the rest of my career? Is this my life now?"
So far: Yes.
That's been the steady thing. Any period of downtime anxiety is probably 100x worse in the moment.
Not having a monthly paycheck as a freelancer, and thus having complete control over my income is the scariest thing ever. If I get sick, or my ADHD becomes more of an issue (like it has done over the last 6 months), I just make no/less money and it's pretty scary
Bugs in production.
Working directly in production.
Anything related to working on the live version of a website.
Those are big “Don’t do it”
I worry about the areas I choose to dive deep in. I have no problem sitting down and studying. I worry whether I’ve chosen the right languages, the right area of CS, and the right position on the tech stack.
I worry that writing tech blogs is a form of procrastination for me. Even though I learn so much while researching, coding, and putting them together.
However, providing value to the community is very rewarding and can’t really be measured 😊
Currently: Picked up a call center tech support gig while looking for a developer role - tech support isn't unusual to me, but I hate being on calls.
In development: Getting anxious/nervous, particularly during interviews, causing me to freeze up and sound like I know absolutely nothing about development.
I worked at a call center for a while when I was younger. I didn't like it, but I felt like it taught me some useful skills.
Definitely feel you on interviews 😄
100% yes on the interviews! I always end up freezing and it's awful.
It's why if there's ever a technical component, I ask if I can take it home with me. Because otherwise it's going to take me 2 hours and be riddled with mistakes because I'm just so nervous I can't think.
All interviews should be done with access to searching the web, like you’d have in literally every other context in software development.
Exactly! I've had to make this case so many times in interviews - this is exactly what we're all doing while we're working, so why can't I do it now?
My job is all around designing a product these days and the pressure to have a robust, multi tenant, scalable, cloud native app is just overwhelming most times
My current English skills. I'm not a native speaker, my knowledge is not well and I have many problems with it cuz for me easier to use my native language than English.
When I am faced with banal tasks/projects and I don't see the possibility to be innovative/creative or build something useful.
Also meeting rooms with no windows.