Sometimes the less challenging tasks are exactly what I need. If I've been spinning my wheels on something for a few hours, whether it's that I don't understand the problem space well enough or that other life stresses are taking up that headspace, my confidence might start to wane. Stashing the hard thing I'm working on and swapping over to something easy might help me get my confidence back up and get some momentum going.
If I'm only getting easy, boring tasks and the more fun stuff is going to other developers all the time, that might be something to bring up with my manager during a routine 1-on-1. If nobody on the team is getting interesting problems to solve, that might involve a different conversation.
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Sometimes the less challenging tasks are exactly what I need. If I've been spinning my wheels on something for a few hours, whether it's that I don't understand the problem space well enough or that other life stresses are taking up that headspace, my confidence might start to wane. Stashing the hard thing I'm working on and swapping over to something easy might help me get my confidence back up and get some momentum going.
If I'm only getting easy, boring tasks and the more fun stuff is going to other developers all the time, that might be something to bring up with my manager during a routine 1-on-1. If nobody on the team is getting interesting problems to solve, that might involve a different conversation.