💼 Career Advice
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Getting your first job as a software developer is only the start of your journey.
Software developers need to continually improve their skills to get promoted and earn more money.
It isn’t just programming skills that you need to learn there are also a range of soft skills and business skills you need to learn if you want to get to a 6 figure salary.
On this website, I cover tips and advice from my 12-year career to help you succeed as a software developer.
Videos
I regularly give career advice on my YouTube channel. Here are some of my favourites.
All Career Advice Articles
This is a complete list of articles I have written on career advice. Enjoy!
- The Good and Bad of Remote Work
- What should a Junior .Net Developer know?
- Good Engineers Perform Root Cause Analysis
- Why software developers quit after 2 years
- 5 Hard Skills That Will Pay Off Forever
- Should software engineers learn DevOps? 🛠️
- What happened to the remote working dream?
- Every great developer has this one trait 🧠
- Why is the market so tough for junior engineers right now? 😭
- Startup vs Corporate - Which is best for you? 🏢
- How to Build a Project That Will ACTUALLY Get You a Job
- Specialist vs Generalist ⚒️
- Engineering Manager vs Tech Lead 🧑🏻💻
- When is the Right Time to Quit Your Job? 🚪
- Taking Care of Your Mental Health as a Software Developer 🧠
- 5 Hard Truths No-One Is Telling You About Software Engineering
- Software Engineering Promotions: Increase Your Chances of Getting to the Next Level 🚀
- 10 Questions You Should Be Asking at your Technical Interview
- AI Can’t Do This - SECRET to being a SUCCESSFUL Software Engineer
- Does software development have an age limit?
- Backend Developer Roadmap 2023
- Can we replace junior developers with ChatGPT?
- Is there such a thing as job security?
- The biggest regret in my software engineering career
- The Comfort Zone is Ruining Your Life
- How to Succeed as an Introvert Engineer
- How to Find Work That You Will Love Doing
- Does GPT-3 threaten your engineering job?
- Finding Balance: Taking a Break From Work Without Feeling Guilty
- Is Working In Tech Still Worth It?
- Hedonistic Adaption for Software Developers
- All Developers seem to suffer from this...
- Sharing your knowledge as a developer
- The Secret to Becoming a High Paid Software Developer
- Programming = Problem Solving
- How to Know if Programming is the Right Career for You?
- Programming = Creativity 🎨
- Dealing with Imposter Syndrome as a Software Developer
- How to Survive a Software Developer Interview