In my first year of career, where I just started as a RoR developer. I found myself working from morning 9 to night 9 in office, and even at home I used to learn/understand/discuss/post in stackoverflow about the code that I have been working on.
Come to think of it, that is the worst thing I did to myself. I should have asked for a project manager, when there were not any. The client used to come to the developers directly and express his anger about why the project is going so slow.
Apparently the CTO promised the whole e-commerce project to be done in 2 weeks, but in retrospect, it was done in 6 months. With the engineers being fresh grads and requirements kept on adding. At this current situation, I am in with 4+ years experience, I would have made a promise like 2-3 months. But certainly not 2 weeks.
I got back pain
I resorted to smoking at least 3-4 cigarettes a day. While I smoked a little in college as a recreational thing. But it was not a habit in college. But it became a habit after I joined work professionally.
I was not mentally well, I used to get irritated and was not nice with colleagues. I used to cry sometimes in the night for no reason or some other reasons which can be coped with if I did not have stress at work.
I did not have any life other than work.
While the whole experience of working in this company made me better as a developer and land a job at double the pay. I just wish sometimes, it need not be done that way. I should just relaxed a little and maybe should have gotten the double pay after 2 years instead of one year since I was just 22 at that point in time.
Now I just work 10 - 5 or 6. I don't do work after office unless it's a prod issue. I am going to the gym 2-3 times a week and quit smoking. I wish someone was there to guide me better.
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In my first year of career, where I just started as a RoR developer. I found myself working from morning 9 to night 9 in office, and even at home I used to learn/understand/discuss/post in stackoverflow about the code that I have been working on.
Come to think of it, that is the worst thing I did to myself. I should have asked for a project manager, when there were not any. The client used to come to the developers directly and express his anger about why the project is going so slow.
Apparently the CTO promised the whole e-commerce project to be done in 2 weeks, but in retrospect, it was done in 6 months. With the engineers being fresh grads and requirements kept on adding. At this current situation, I am in with 4+ years experience, I would have made a promise like 2-3 months. But certainly not 2 weeks.
I got back pain
I resorted to smoking at least 3-4 cigarettes a day. While I smoked a little in college as a recreational thing. But it was not a habit in college. But it became a habit after I joined work professionally.
I was not mentally well, I used to get irritated and was not nice with colleagues. I used to cry sometimes in the night for no reason or some other reasons which can be coped with if I did not have stress at work.
I did not have any life other than work.
While the whole experience of working in this company made me better as a developer and land a job at double the pay. I just wish sometimes, it need not be done that way. I should just relaxed a little and maybe should have gotten the double pay after 2 years instead of one year since I was just 22 at that point in time.
Now I just work 10 - 5 or 6. I don't do work after office unless it's a prod issue. I am going to the gym 2-3 times a week and quit smoking. I wish someone was there to guide me better.