Monday, August 04, 2008

Hanging on!

"This is how I see it. You get out of college and get a job and get some work experience.
For the first 2-5 years you concentrate on making a name for yourself and building a good reputation as a good person, a good worker, and make some good contacts.
You learn about the software business and build your technical skills.

After your fifth year you need to have a plan to go into some form of management, project management, or technical leadership. By your tenth year you need to be executing that plan.
In today's industry, you're not going to be down at the level of actual programming / coding / software development for a long time. You need to move into a leadership or management position.

Forget coding -- they can get somebody with 2-5yrs experience and pay them less. On the other hand, management positions require experience." - Dr. C