I am a beginning software engineer who is excruciatingly close behind in your exact footsteps, I've jumped from front-end to back-end and now am knocking on the door of devops with me getting some responsibilities as well for the latter at my workplace, how do you stop this train wreck then, should I just settle into the rhythm and be a back-end engineer and just be happy with that, cuz I explored front-end and didn't get a feel for it how do I know if there is some thing else that would possibly make me feel more at home than back-end and i end up not exploring it
Hello Arnab - first off you should feel proud of what you have accomplished in your recent engineering career i.e. experiencing all the different aspects of product development. Most people spend years doing a specific thing out of those and never realize that they truly enjoy something else.
To be honest, I sense that you did find that motivation and enthusiasm with backend dev over other areas. I would say you could make that your primary focus area along with opportunities to do some full-stack and system architecture work involvement in your 20% time.
I would love to stay in touch of your journey and help in any way I can. Feel free to connect on LinkedIn at: linkedin.com/in/anandsafi
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I am a beginning software engineer who is excruciatingly close behind in your exact footsteps, I've jumped from front-end to back-end and now am knocking on the door of devops with me getting some responsibilities as well for the latter at my workplace, how do you stop this train wreck then, should I just settle into the rhythm and be a back-end engineer and just be happy with that, cuz I explored front-end and didn't get a feel for it how do I know if there is some thing else that would possibly make me feel more at home than back-end and i end up not exploring it
Hello Arnab - first off you should feel proud of what you have accomplished in your recent engineering career i.e. experiencing all the different aspects of product development. Most people spend years doing a specific thing out of those and never realize that they truly enjoy something else.
To be honest, I sense that you did find that motivation and enthusiasm with backend dev over other areas. I would say you could make that your primary focus area along with opportunities to do some full-stack and system architecture work involvement in your 20% time.
I would love to stay in touch of your journey and help in any way I can. Feel free to connect on LinkedIn at: linkedin.com/in/anandsafi