Hi Heather/Bruno,
What is the one piece of advice that you want to give a developer in his/her mid-career to stay positive and keep the essence of ones programming abilities at the same time advance in career?
Context: I have been building and maintaining software systems for more than 15 years, seeing the changes that came in technologies, software paradigms used and keeping afloat on top of those. But with myriads of technologies getting released and used everyday I feel like I(or anybody in a similar position) am being pressurized to run on these changes rather than feeling them or understanding them. This takes a big toll on the creative abilities and just make me in being a learn and forget kind of position. I have denied few opportunities for taking up a techno managerial position just cause of my interest in learning new things. I am not sure whether that was the right decision I made? Because now I feel like a low-level developer with no executive power and thus it impedes my creative abilities.
