A Wake-up call (or a rant from an underperforming Software Engineer)
<p>Have you ever feel like you wasted the better years of your youth chasing clouds and resting on your laurels as money coming from your software developer job keeps flowing into your pockets?</p>
<p>I work for a software consulting firm as a remote-based Junior .NET Software Engineer. Salary is good, work is plenty, and my skillset is in high demand due a wave of layoffs. I consider myself lucky to be in this position.</p>
<p>A perfect recipe for complacency.</p>
<p>I’ve been working 3 hours a day 5 days a week for two years just doing the bare minimum to meet customer expectations. That’s the thing with Scrum methodologies in remote environments: as long as you keep up with the team’s average velocity, nobody will ask how many naps you took during working hours (just don’t skip important ceremonies, that’s a no-no; also, check your calendar before taking a nap!).</p>
<p>My current assignment involves helping a customer out with the cloud modernization of a enormous legacy application written in C# (a subcontractor gig, basically, but “consultant” rolls off the tongue). This app is the centerpiece of a vast amount of satellite apps that together form a huge workflow. The business logic is deep and complex, patterns and coding conventions are from a time before Bitcoin was even a thing.</p>
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