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What's the best advice you can give someone starting job in tech industry? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by mastermind@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] speaker_hat@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is no one perfect solution unfortunately.

Meeting a therapist will definitely help to identify the root cause, and eventually will help.

Also, see my post YSK: Understanding the work burnout experience, treatment and preventions

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the root cause is the complexity. I do a lot better in jobs where the situations might change but the rules don’t. In programming, everything is changing all the time and I can’t keep up. There’s no repetition and if you are repeating yourself you’re doing it wrong.

I need parts of the day when I’m not being creative within a formally strict environment. It takes too much processing power for my brain to do that, and it overworks me.

I know the root cause and the problem is solved because I’m working jobs that have complexity within the range I can handle.

[–] dexx4d@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I think the root cause is the complexity.

Split the problem into manageable chunks, then attack the chunks. Apply recursion as needed.

This is part of a more senior skillset, as some times a senior will be breaking up the problem and assigning the smaller pieces to other devs.