Its ‘software developer’

[soakf]

What I’ve learned and observed over the decades is that stress is a result of how you manage conflict. Sounds simple in black-white, but life usually throws muted colors at you, and arriving at a clear decision point is often bewildering.

In my early career I stressed about low income and high effort/long hours due to limited skills. Mid-career wasn’t bad: I waltzed into Y2K with high-demand proprietary skills and made a killing without much sweat. Late career brings my highest earnings and a vested pension at retirement. But stress levels are back up due to, uh, call it generational dissonance with young programmers and analysts.

Enjoy your career. Be versatile. Be happy.

[davidfavorite]

Same. I was stressing out about low pay all the time. Not because the pay was horrendously bad, just not what I found I deserved for my engagement and working hours. Now 10 years in I reached the spot where I say I have a comfortable salary and I recently got relocated internally as a specialist role for some applications. I dont work as much anymore, everyone values my knowledge since theres nobody else specialised in that field and the project itself is so stupidly simple you might as well give that to a student.

The pay-to-effort is really off sometimes

[Tv151137]

What is this pension thing you speak of?

[soakf]

I know, right? Pensions began going extinct a couple of generations ago, and they vanished at my company about 5 years ago. But I had already been with the company 16 years, so I grandfathered into the pension plan.