Digest: As A Software Developer, Is It Bad If I Just Want To Stay Average, Get The Pay Cheque And Enjoy My Life After Work?


I’ll tell you a story. This story is about a developer I worked with a long time ago. Let’s call him Peter.

Peter and I used to be developers of this specific Database and Language system called “FileMaker”. We weren’t true software developers, in the Comp Sci sense, but we had a lot of similar skills.

Peter has a wife, kids (quite a few), and a happy little job with me up in Chicago. It was a good life for us both. The whole company ran off this system, and while it had its stressful moments, it was a pretty sweet gig. We could clock out and go home, and we each had our own lives.

One day the company we worked for decided to try something truly innovative in the industry. Unfortunately, our skills weren’t a good match for that. So they brought in a VB6 guy (this was before .NET) and asked if we could help...



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