Hey, I love this. This is actually incredibly timely for me. I've been coding for quite a long time and am serving as a multi-role development manager and lead developer type of role at the moment. I'm doing a lot of code and a lot of management and loving it all.
However, the Odyssey Plan you discuss isn't just suited to new developers. I'm looking at the back half of my career ahead of me and asking myself what I want that to look like. The skills that got me thus far are likely to be very different than the ones I need ahead as I'm likely in one of my last (if not last) job where I write a significant amount of code.
I purchased the book and will give it a readthrough and go over the worksheet as well.
At a glance, I see a few paths for me:
Keep focused in a coding / lead / architecture / mentoring capacity
Aim for a CTO or VP of Development type of role
Transition into teaching at a boot camp or university
Become more of a developer advocate and speaker and look for a role doing that sort of work.
Either way, the approach is still valid and valuable. Thank you for the presentation.
Max is a startup software engineer. He seeks to use what he has learnt as a startup founder and tech community leader to solves hard problems with innovate products or services.
Hey, I love this. This is actually incredibly timely for me. I've been coding for quite a long time and am serving as a multi-role development manager and lead developer type of role at the moment. I'm doing a lot of code and a lot of management and loving it all.
However, the Odyssey Plan you discuss isn't just suited to new developers. I'm looking at the back half of my career ahead of me and asking myself what I want that to look like. The skills that got me thus far are likely to be very different than the ones I need ahead as I'm likely in one of my last (if not last) job where I write a significant amount of code.
I purchased the book and will give it a readthrough and go over the worksheet as well.
At a glance, I see a few paths for me:
Either way, the approach is still valid and valuable. Thank you for the presentation.
Yes that's why I really love about odyssey plan as I applies to anyone regardless your a junior or veteran in industry.
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