Serious Coders - don't volunteer to do exotic work

[AsiaCel]

There's a saying in the military: don't volunteer for things.

I think it stands perfectly here. By having special skills, unless you are actually interested and experienced in the fields, you should not volunteer and reveal too much about said skills.

I'm the only one with the skills in the office to do android apps and unreal+VR development, and that is really bad.

These kind of work are burden on you. Trust me, they are considerably more annoying and harder than web development due to the specifications and dynamic nature of such software.

With web development, your colleague asks you to fix a simple bug, in most cases you can give a fairly accurate deadline.

In these exotic fields, you have to deal with pointer errors (exception at 0X00001), rapidly updating dependencies (and thus deprecating), performance issues, UI animations, stability of program.

There's also much more to account for. Webdev is just handling Firefox and chrome, while mobile, and gaming, you have to handle different devices of different screen sizes, performance, android version, UGH.

Finally, exotic coders are paid just as much (if not less) as webdevs.

TLDR: Web development is like boiling noodles, while other work is making fine dining for 5 star hotels.

Stay away.

 

[AsiaCel]

@wereq @GmeOvr

 

[wereq]

In these exotic fields, you have to deal with pointer errors (exception at 0X00001), rapidly updating dependencies (and thus deprecating), performance issues, UI animations, stability of program.

Yeah you have more to manage here all on your own so no wonder its hard. Have to be high IQ to debug shit, otherwise tear your hair out.

 

[AsiaCel]

Yeah you have more to manage here all on your own so no wonder its hard. Have to be high IQ to debug shit, otherwise tear your hair out.

I created a asp net platform that connects other websites and handle their account/payment information across platforms. It was nowhere as bad as android apps or unreal engine.

 

[NEB.feelsdevil]

Coding moggs me so hard.

I am a subhuman who works at a call center

 

[AsiaCel]

Coding moggs me so hard.

I am a subhuman who works at a call center

Who the fuck cares? Your career is meaningless as mine anyway. Plus I ain't paid much better than the average call center here in my city.

If not for the years of experience grind I wouldn't mind working in a call center, assuming lower hrs to work.

 

[ReconElement]

Yea, if you're so keen on coding just do side projects in your free time or something, don't volunteer for stupid unpaid labour, you don't wanna be the office version of a mule

 

[ReconElement]

At least you don't have to deal with pretentious fake pajeets who can't do shit but read and scream random words like anything

 

[Epedaphic]

don't volunteer for things

once you're in the working world this is pretty good advice... if some extra work is being assigned to you then you should be paid for it or receive some kind of promotion
otherwise, once people discover that you are capable of cramming even more work into your day, they will just continue to give you more and more work. this is why i'll probably never work in an office again, these toxic kinds of cultures and environments.

 

[AsiaCel]

At least you don't have to deal with pretentious fake pajeets who can't do shit but read and scream random words like anything

...I do.

My co worker is a pajeet

 

[AsiaCel]

Yea, if you're so keen on coding just do side projects in your free time or something, don't volunteer for stupid unpaid labour, you don't wanna be the office version of a mule

once you're in the working world this is pretty good advice... if some extra work is being assigned to you then you should be paid for it or receive some kind of promotion
otherwise, once people discover that you are capable of cramming even more work into your day, they will just continue to give you more and more work. this is why i'll probably never work in an office again, these toxic kinds of cultures and environments.

Not just not volunteering for extra work, but also don't reveal your extra skills if you don't want to dive into them. You will be "the one" in the office and everything will be blamed on you.

 

[ReconElement]

...I do.

My co worker is a pajeet

saaaarrr

 

[GmeOvr]

I agree.

and reveal too much about said skills.

Also, if ever you find a money glitch scheme like I did
NEVER reveal it to others.
I was able to leave the code monkey farm thanks to one.
Basically I made 500k with something a bit shady (can't say what it is).

To give you an idea what I am talking about, you have brocels selling video game cheats, fake followers or likes on social networks.
I am not doing that but something similar.

You must find your own scheme and escape the rat race.

 

[AsiaCel]

If I ever see one more deprecated feature ruining the whole run im gonna nuke Africa

literally not even 4 years and the whole thing is riddled with errors because I need access to this POS development kit that literally doesn't work because the fucking JEWS removed them from the maven archive

and I have to fucking edit the dependencies by hand

 

[Livonica_Irreale]

once you're in the working world this is pretty good advice... if some extra work is being assigned to you then you should be paid for it or receive some kind of promotion
otherwise, once people discover that you are capable of cramming even more work into your day, they will just continue to give you more and more work. this is why i'll probably never work in an office again, these toxic kinds of cultures and environments.

 

[Shark]

Alright, will keep this in my mind

 

[starystulejarz]

Unreal is cancer so i hope it will die.