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Discussion on: What you hate the most about being a Developer? 😅🤓

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Liam Arbuckle-Hradecky

The stereotypes are pretty annoying, just as annoying when people assume that things you do aren't that hard. For me there's two main things that I have problems with:

  • My goal in life is to be an open-source game developer. My parents have very negative opinions of technology, especially the gaming industry, and they seem to have the notion that game developers are basically youtubers who play games for a living.
  • I often do freelancing work to pay the bills, however I am very uncomfortable with being the one to nominate the price. I work with companies of different scales, and therefore different websites are worth different prices to different groups. Whenever I have to go into a meeting without the rest of my team I get very nervous when it comes to asking for money because some companies won't value the job as much as others do, and you want to have a good reputation with as many companies as possible.