Comments on: 6 Years As A Professional Software Developer

By: 7 Years As A Professional Software Developer | The Inquisitive Coder – Davy Brion’s Blog

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:24:31 +0000

[...] past 7 years. I don’t know why that means something to me, but it does. Last year, i gave an overview of my short career which people seemed to find interesting, so i figured i might as well add this to my list of [...]

By: Davy Brion

Davy Brion — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:10:51 +0000

@Nikhil

My biggest advice i can give you is not to buy into the employee benefits of the financial products they can give you. I’ve seen quite a few people who got a loan with employee benefits to buy a house, and later on once they got tired of working there, they felt they could never leave due to losing the employee benefits on that loan.

One of the most important things is to make sure that you’re happy in your job (after all, you are going to spending a hell of a lot of time there), but you have to allow for the possibility to go out and find something better once the job is no longer making you happy.

By: Nikhil Jain

Nikhil Jain — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:42:50 +0000

hi…
all the best to you..
i am also starting my carrier in a financial service company currently mostly with Microsoft Technologies, any tips you would like to give.

By: Davy Brion

Davy Brion — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:08:13 +0000

“The only downside is, with only 4 years of experience, it’s kind of hard to convince others you are in fact could be placed at the senior level.”

nah not really, you just gotta let the results speak for themselves instead of trying to convince people

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:05:38 +0000

Man,
You just reminded me how long I have been a professional developer. I started in 2004 so that makes it 4-5 years I guess. I learned a lot, always motivated to learn and apply better practice at work! My first job was a J2EE job so it was OK. Except for one thing: they are not very opened for open source solution much. I learned what I can there with their own in-house stuff then move on and work for the current firm, which I would say embrace open source like crazy. I have a chance to learn, again, and I think I take my chance seriously.
The only downside is, with only 4 years of experience, it’s kind of hard to convince others you are in fact could be placed at the senior level.

Regards

By: Veera

Veera — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:25:59 +0000

All the best for a successful career in the future too!

By: Gonzalo

Gonzalo — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:19:49 +0000

It sounds like you found the perfect job.

I am jealous

By: Davy Brion

Davy Brion — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:13:02 +0000

ditto

By: den Ben

den Ben — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:10:31 +0000

Ouch! Has it been that long already? Seems I’m not the only one growing older now am I? I can still remember our car-pool rides and the long working days approaching the dead line of VB6 project number 1 (the one with the Crystal Reports 7 hacking that you undoubtedly have mentally blocked in the mean time) Still, I believe we had some good times back in those days.

Glad to still have you as a coworker!

By: Davy Brion

Davy Brion — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:00:17 +0000

thx

By: Jan Van Ryswyck

Jan Van Ryswyck — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:51:43 +0000

High-priced Microsoft consultants building frameworks up-front that allows every application to write itself. Don’t get me started on that one .

Anyway, I hope you have a lot of fun with your current and future projects. Looking forward to your “10 years as a professional developer” post .