![]() You get one job and simply don't have the time outside of work to practice all the tests you need to pass in order to get a new one. There are more and more of these sites, and keeping up to date with all of them is a full time job in itself.įor this reason, it's very easy to plateau in a programming career. ![]() And if you want a new job, you need to be highly practicsed at what can be fiendishly difficult tests run by sites like Hackerrank, which you have to pass even to get an interview. If you want to stay employable as a programmer, you need to keep up to speed with new techniques and new languages. It's not just the hours in the job - although these can be long - it's the hours that need to be spent programming outside of your working day. The real issue with programming jobs, though, is the working hours. It's harder and harder to get a pay rise and more of our work is being centralized and automated, so that at some point soon I suspect that pay may even start to fall. And as such, we are being continuously squeezed. ![]() The problem is that programming is still a cost centre. I look at how much people in front office banking jobs are earning and it's hard not to feel that I've made a serious mistake. In two years' time I might be on £70k ($92k). Programming is badly paid, in decline, and takes up all your free time just to stay ahead of the game - let alone to also find a new job. I work as a computer programmer and I am beginning to curse my bad luck and stupidity for having chosen this particular career.
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