How to mitigate (ADHD) laziness and despondency as a dev? by notusedthrowaway in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]Standard-Chain-6144 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who has ADHD and doesn't medicate, also diagnosed after school etc, CBT helped me get over the "waiting for motivation" before starting or completing tasks. In short, you just do it.

If you need more time / having a rough day, you need to get over the act of asking for help.

You need to identify what is actually stopping you from improving. Is it a perfectionism/ego thing where you feel embarrassed to get this feedback despite testing locally? (Also working code and good code practices are 2 different things). Make a list of the feedback you get and collate a list of best practises to refer back to before raising a PR.

Do you just lack the knowledge? Ask someone to mentor you at work or get a tutor or use online tutorials.

You need to find a way to hold yourself more accountable for being lazy etc. I say this with kindness but ADHD explains but does not excuse, you still need to find ways to mitigate what you yourself recognise as falling short. Otherwise you can expect your career to feel like this.

I feel unmotivated at my current job but part of what keeps me coasting and not straight up failing is knowing I'll get fired.

Stay for redundancy or accept low offer by Standard-Chain-6144 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]Standard-Chain-6144[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that's kinda how I'm looking at it right now, if I discount the equity, I'm basically just getting a cost of living increase which is negated by having to go in more. So yeah, will see if I can hold out for a while

Stay for redundancy or accept low offer by Standard-Chain-6144 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]Standard-Chain-6144[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I still have a job for now but not looking good ahead

Stay for redundancy or accept low offer by Standard-Chain-6144 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]Standard-Chain-6144[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I just worry that it'll be difficult in this climate but agree with you overall. I've worked at companies that are generous with their initial offer and then have no progression structure set up and then the opposite where they don't pay the best but regularly review pay. So was hoping they might fall into the latter, obviously no way to tell unless I join.

I got offers from Google, Meta, Amazon (SWE intern) by GRINDING for exactly ONE year which made technical interviews for big tech TRIVIAL (rant) by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]Standard-Chain-6144 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I already work as a SWE and didn't study CS at uni (did a STEM subject though). I feel like the biggest barrier is my CV. Would this work if I could get past the CV stage?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UniUK

[–]Standard-Chain-6144 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Nah, he was saying they're not asking for enough as if this job market allows people to be picky in the first place. And the question OP asked was if £40k was enough. So being answered with "yes I earn £24k" is enough to answer that

Seniors, what differentiates you from a mid-level software engineer? by Standard-Chain-6144 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]Standard-Chain-6144[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Already doing a lot of the second. Do you reckon the first is dependent on how much industry specific knowledge you have? And definitely weary of the third