Thriving Technologist

Thriving Technologist

Elevate your tech career, reclaim your life!

If you're struggling to grow (or just survive) in your tech career - I've been there. I started out in QA and was promoted to a software architect way too early at just 23 years old. That's when the political games hit! It was a fight of every developer for himself from there on out...

About 20 years later I suffered from chronic burnout. I lost my job, my savings - and almost my marriage. But it taught me what matters - and who I really am. The IT industry has many problems, and sometimes they can't be fixed. But we can fix ourselves!

Today I offer tech professionals all over the world integrated career and life coaching, and courses to help them succeed without burning out. I can help you improve your mindset and mental health, lean into your strengths, and if it's time - start working for yourself.

Subscribe and join us - let’s help each other grow a community of thriving technologists!

Пікірлер

  • @brandonhicks7549
    @brandonhicks7549Сағат бұрын

    I get the benefit of incremental refactoring where it’s possible, but not exposing the need to refactor code, and hiding it from management makes for a very opaque development environment. Decreasing transparency-that refactoring is a common and necessary part of code development, makes it hard to explain cause for productivity lapses, and paints a rose-colored picture of the effort involved. You may have to do this at your company depending on how management works. However open transparency gives management more insight into the processes involved in developing code.

  • @kahnfatman
    @kahnfatman2 сағат бұрын

    How to escape the Corporate Grind? Be the grinder, not the ground: Start a new product!

  • @YourNickIsTaken
    @YourNickIsTaken4 сағат бұрын

    I deliver what is in the ticket. Customer says: That's not what i wanted. Management gives me a warning. I talk to the customer, we agree on things, it is in the ticket now. I ask the manager if it is ok to deliver that. It is accepted by management. I deliver it. Customer says: that's not what i wanted. Management warns me and puts the "next time you will be fired" sign to the warning. User stories and fake agile is hilarious.

  • @johnq.public3302
    @johnq.public33024 сағат бұрын

    Been in the biz for 25+ years and still going strong. Started off doing perl/c stuff now doing angular web/microservice stuff. Always learn. Always have your hand up to work on new tech. Don't pigeon hole yourself as an expert on one tech. Be the one they call when SHTF. Get good with people. Learn how the game is played.

  • @metteby
    @metteby4 сағат бұрын

    Never add a task for refactoring 😂 so true

  • @DudeWatIsThis
    @DudeWatIsThis6 сағат бұрын

    Freelancing for 8 years now, and going. Got 3 employees now. My clients just accept that I'm a weirdo, since I'm a tech guy, and they mostly just care about results, which I provide. So here I am. There is great freedom in starting emails with "No, " instead of with "Unfortunately, ". Cast yourself out there, screw corporations.

  • @vendettasnares
    @vendettasnares6 сағат бұрын

    At least in Poland self employment doesn't mean you have to do freelance. I've been self employed for 3 years now and in that time I had 4 contracts that lasted between 7 months and a year. It feels just like working for a big corporation on Contract of Employment for most of the time. Yeah, and I did a little bit of freelance, but it was minuscule earning compared to contract work.

  • @CaptainWumbo
    @CaptainWumbo7 сағат бұрын

    cost of living has gone up a lot making it harder to do this. even good paying souless tech job barely lets you live independently, let alone own property and be able to not have a landlord invade your privacy and leak your pii or abuse you when they want to get new market rate. I think we will see innovation really dwindle until people can afford to take a chance again.

  • @terryhayward7905
    @terryhayward79058 сағат бұрын

    I am very glad that I am freelance, I don't have to put up with managers, I get a job, I do it and I bill them

  • @paulleddy3185
    @paulleddy31858 сағат бұрын

    Real

  • @paulleddy3185
    @paulleddy31859 сағат бұрын

    True

  • @VasiliyTeliatnikov
    @VasiliyTeliatnikov9 сағат бұрын

    Nice and helpful video

  • @anyalei
    @anyalei9 сағат бұрын

    Eh sorry, but the whole patriarchal framing of "providing for your family" and all that nonsense made you have one less woman watching. 98.5, indeed.

  • @kahnfatman
    @kahnfatman10 сағат бұрын

    HR: "We are family here!" Me: Did you fire your mother and father? Did the Red Guards of Maos get into you recently!?

  • @lijath
    @lijath10 сағат бұрын

    Best management advice I ever got: Never bring a problem to the table that you don't have a solution for.

  • @440766tg
    @440766tg11 сағат бұрын

    15:30 hard to congratulate someone on completing something in 6 months that would take you a couple weeks and your version would run in minutes vs hours. You know because eventually you rewrite it because you don't have hours to wait to debug some production issue.

  • @webdeveloperninja9220
    @webdeveloperninja922011 сағат бұрын

    Been solo for about 2 years, never going back to corporate again

  • @JerehmiaBoaz
    @JerehmiaBoaz15 сағат бұрын

    Yeah right. Not communicating problems because communicating them makes management lose confidence in you is how the space shuttle blew up. If management needs more confidence they need a therapist, not a coder.

  • @HealthyDev
    @HealthyDev12 сағат бұрын

    A) We're not building the space shuttle. B) We all need therapists these days.

  • @JerehmiaBoaz
    @JerehmiaBoaz11 сағат бұрын

    @@HealthyDev Why is management so afraid we make a mess of things that they need reassurance of our competence, have we consistently exaggerated the complexity of our tasks or did we produce million dollar failures here and there?

  • @HealthyDev
    @HealthyDev8 сағат бұрын

    @@JerehmiaBoaz I think from their perspective we overcomplicate things and they do see us as the source of failures when there are bugs. Not that those are two fair conclusions, just that's the perspective. I'm not saying that applies to all management, but it isn't uncommon.

  • @JerehmiaBoaz
    @JerehmiaBoaz5 сағат бұрын

    @@HealthyDev In my experience not communicating issues with development processes to management leads to mismanagement of those development processes. In my opinion the mistake some devs make when communicating to management is that they don't really make risk and impact assessments of the problems they report. If you expect problems then management wants to hear how big the chance is the problems will occur and how much time and effort it will cost to solve them, and if you haven't thought about that or can't even produce rough estimates then you do come across as alarmist and unprofessional.

  • @marosmierka1904
    @marosmierka190415 сағат бұрын

    24:00 thats why we use emails, besides communicaiton we create evidence as well

  • @lawrence1519
    @lawrence151915 сағат бұрын

    LOOOOOL 5:00 Thats happened to me.... my old company was borrowed me to another company and that was fun ... So i changed the company and my job was "complete" different... the workflow was different, we had an external company "being in the lead" instead of "me"/us ... and another technology... But i saw that as an opportunity to learn the other tech, because i never had learned it on my own ... so i am happy that worked for me

  • @0_Mark_00
    @0_Mark_0015 сағат бұрын

    16:46 perfectly describes the state of getting a job in this stupid industry right now

  • @eyeCU13
    @eyeCU1317 сағат бұрын

    Yes it's true. If you go solo, you would have to spread thin! In a compony, there're other people who take care of marketing, business and financial management. Now you would have to do it all yourself. It's ok, it's doable, but you better grasp what you're getting yourself into in advance.

  • @DejayClayton
    @DejayClayton18 сағат бұрын

    Loving the guitar interludes 😃

  • @casse82
    @casse8220 сағат бұрын

    Listening to this all I can think is how shitty companies have you worked for. Sure I guess it's the big companies in the industry, but that doesn't change anything.

  • @i.ai.a5466
    @i.ai.a5466Күн бұрын

    "you're hired to find problems" well no... "You're hired to solve problems" documenting problems is pointless. You're better to document solutions and wait for shit to hit the fan before swooping in as a hero. Business and work is all smoke screen, mirrors and timing. So , the best employee are magicians and crooks. People are easy to blind sight and manipulate. That's also the cause of most problems in modern business.