Everything I wish I had known when I just started my software developer career a decade ago

This is NOT just another “I wish I know” list.

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All points will be explained in developer language.

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Protect Your Time

At all your cost.

Once you joined a company, signed a contract, and started your first day on the job. day after day, you:

• Work harder and harder
• Fix bugs faster and faster
• Submitting a huge number of merge/pull requests to prove that you are so damn good

To:

• Be promoted faster in your job, and get more and learn more:
• happiness, new technologies, building friendships, and more money.

but mostly you will be ended up OT day after day, nothing much has changed: not richer, not happier, but more bugs, more emails/messages/calls on weekends, more 9–11pms. year after year, 1%–2% extra came to your account.

Before you change jobs (again). please spend 5–10 seconds to take a look at the below interface.

Interface IdayOfWork{
     int Money writeKillerCode(me, const int hours=8);
}

Then implement it in your day-to-day work, make sure it matches the below requirements:

• 8 hours, not more, not less.