Thanks for the kind words of encouragement, and sharing such a personal story! It makes me sad how often I hear this. I hope you have found some support to help you get through that. I get career coaching clients coming to me after heartbreaks often. I donβt think we take it seriously enough sometimes that when employers do this to us itβs inexcusable and traumatic. βSucking it upβ doesnβt work when itβs something we really care about! Hang in there!!!
I've been lucky to have my family backing me up, and I'm now working on building my own idea while. It is true that the incident had left a trauma, but more it had opened up a new outlook on employment and stability. Altogether with the COVID-19 lock down, it had given me a break from the constant rat race and reflect on what's best for me as a person.
I was so wrong to have fixated on my programming chop as my strength. Strength isn't what someone does well to get paid in a day job. Strength is character, and many employers, including mine, do not understand how to maximize their people's strengths, and punish them for failing in skills that might otherwise be improvable.
Great insights. Yes, I came to the conclusion a few years back that employers, for all their good intentions, just donβt invest in growing skills for developers outside the technology. They might say they do, but itβs often lip service. Good to hear youβve figured this out, many donβt! We can learn valuable career skills outside of just the technology, but we need to seek them outside of our industry. At least thatβs been my experience.
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Thanks for the kind words of encouragement, and sharing such a personal story! It makes me sad how often I hear this. I hope you have found some support to help you get through that. I get career coaching clients coming to me after heartbreaks often. I donβt think we take it seriously enough sometimes that when employers do this to us itβs inexcusable and traumatic. βSucking it upβ doesnβt work when itβs something we really care about! Hang in there!!!
I've been lucky to have my family backing me up, and I'm now working on building my own idea while. It is true that the incident had left a trauma, but more it had opened up a new outlook on employment and stability. Altogether with the COVID-19 lock down, it had given me a break from the constant rat race and reflect on what's best for me as a person.
I was so wrong to have fixated on my programming chop as my strength. Strength isn't what someone does well to get paid in a day job. Strength is character, and many employers, including mine, do not understand how to maximize their people's strengths, and punish them for failing in skills that might otherwise be improvable.
Great insights. Yes, I came to the conclusion a few years back that employers, for all their good intentions, just donβt invest in growing skills for developers outside the technology. They might say they do, but itβs often lip service. Good to hear youβve figured this out, many donβt! We can learn valuable career skills outside of just the technology, but we need to seek them outside of our industry. At least thatβs been my experience.