Part of becoming a successful entrepreneur is networking with other like minded over achievers. I’ve formed a close relationship with several other successful website owners and we were exchanging emails about our plans for the future.
Several other people in the group are software engineers and we were all bemoaning the negative aspects of our jobs and how we were counting down the days until we walked out the door. One of the guys who is in a different field all together posed a question to us:
“I find such quitting job conversations very amusing. Is this sort of a norm in the software industry ? … I mean I have quite a few friends in software development and none of them seem happy with their jobs. Is it because there is no such thing as “career development” ? or is it because of other reasons? “
Of course I won’t go into the reasons why here since that would take more time than we have but needless to say we provided him more than enough reasons that I’ll cover individually down the road.
I found this email exchange quite discouraging. Different developers working for different companies in multiple areas of the country all came up with the same gripes about the industry. Sure it’s not a scientific study but in my mind it proved a point, software jobs suck!
There are many people I work with that voice the same concerns I heard in those emails, yet they do nothing about it. I’m glad I’m part of the group that’s decided to make a change and take a different direction with my life. Which group are you in?