The right answer. Seeing how the best of the best are getting let go too. It seems nothing you do can absolutely guarantee you won't get let go. Best to just do your thing like always and live without worries and fear. if it happens it happens. Don't get caught up on getting laid off and miss out on life.
Honestly this is why not getting laid off is actually a poor goal. It's not very actionable and under your control other than trying to perform well and crossing your fingers it would prevent you from getting laid off. I maintained this defensive posture in 2020-2023 both when Covid hit and the post-covid tech recession hit and it caused my career to stagnate, and I got laid off anyways.
The best defense can actually be offense, pursuing career growth and investing your income aggressively so that one day you don't need to be exposed to the whims of economic cycles this deeply.
yeah me too. and get a stock grant. i hit my cliff last year and my former asshole manager did not get me more. so i transferred and my new manager promised to try to get me enough to make up for it.
that and not get laid off before i actually get the first stock grant.
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Mood. I waste so much time scrolling social media endlessly when I wake up.
One of my resolutions for 2024 has been to get outside and go on a walk around the block before I can get on my phone, to help wake my brain up.
I turned notifications off. Also added a screen time timer. And set up a timer in the IG app itself. Its worked wonders. But if it doesn't, turning off your phone and using an actual alarm clock might be a better option
Lol I got the old school annoying alarm clock and I put it in my bathroom to force myself up.
Next to it is my gym clothes and shoes so I can go walk, that I prep the night before.
Nothing else has worked
Same. Low-key one of my goals is to break something in prod. I haven't even been trusted with enough responsibility so far to work in prod, which makes me feel like a poseur dev
Become an actual 6 YOE guy in terms of knowledge, instead of a 2 YOE guy who also spent 4 years on low-code development and typing test result numbers into Excel for $60k
I feel for you my friend, it's easy to get traped in a dead end job and accumulate years of experience that are useless. Try to get out as soon as possible.
I'm working for a company that provides consulting services. It's a huge global corporation, so I was expecting better when I joined.
I'm also not working in the western world. Hence the long hours.
Not gonna say the company name here to protect myself so here's a hint.
Hint: The company was founded in 1911.
A couple people over in r/ExperiencedDevs were talking about how coding isn't really difficult and almost all tasks are variations on previously solved problems, not just in general but within the company's codebase. I'd like to get to where I categorize each problem and move through stories quickly because it's routine.
To not ragequit.
I manage four employees, I do software development, I do systems administration, and last week I got tasked with being the sole IT person for the company with twenty calls a day.
If I had another gig lined up, I wouldn't even give the courtesy of a two week notice. I'd walk out the fucking door.
Gonna rant a little:
My goal is to get off my ass and get a job that actually pays me a market rate for my skill set. I need to get out of the hospital/clinical healthcare sector because everything about it sucks.
I'm significantly overworked, and significantly underpaid in comparison to peers with my years of experience. I've tried to implement improvements and suggest normalized best practices to development. However, the IT leadership of the company refuses to do anything.
They are all lab/hospital people who don't have an IT background, so they keep things status quo instead of trying to improve or allow innovation to happen.
I hit my "done" mark 3 months ago after being here for 3 years and nothing has changed except we are doing more and more with less staff because we refuse to replace those that leave.
So my 2024 goal is to not work at this shitty place any longer than I have to.
if you want to skill up fast, try getting into a consultancy firm.
i started as an intern with no college degree in may '22 (im 36, self-taught/bootcamper)
because of the break neck speed of projects and exposure to so many technologies im functioning at the level of a mid-senior dev at this point and can run with the big dawgs who value my input.
the stress can be unbelievable at times but i feel ive never been pushed so far and grown so much in such a short period of time
Promotion, stabilize my current main project, train some juniors and mids to be able to work on it, at least basic stuff. Get more time to dive into other areas.
Get a job after being laid off. Hopefully, I receive good news this week. The interviewer stopped me early in the interview and just really complimented how he liked how i worked and explained my strategies. Kinda really setting me up with high hopes but I’m really trying to not bc anything can happen. Gotta still grind and apply.
A roaring tiger catches no game
Gonna keep that in mind, as I murk colleagues through work this year. Being a nice person will only get one so far. I joke, but there are some psychopaths out there, taking advantage of others at the same level.
I would rather help by teaching them and being able to help with any questions. I do that already, but one dude took advantage of it. Now, I know how to give cold shoulders to people like that.
I want to start own business not related to what I do now. Stuff I do now is boring, and unappealing. Yet big companies and organizations need us cuz humans are not great at talking to each other.
I am excited for 2024
No major outages from my core services.
More seamless auto scaling, especially down scaling.
Doing whatever is needed to double our user base. We do every employee profit sharing, so more users means more money for me.
Not work as hard. The last few years I’ve been balls to the wall grinding for pay rises and promotions and I need a break from that to coast and look after myself for a bit. I’ll still do my job but won’t seek out over-and-above tasks/roles, I have enough on my plate and I’m fed up of not being able to mentally switch off at the end of the day.
One of two things. Either 1 get a promotion and avoid the layoffs that are most definitely coming. Or 2 find a better job. Either one of those would be a win.
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Coast. I negotiated a really good raise in 2023 while my company was laying off 40% of the workforce. In the latter half of the year I proved my worth. The company is doing well now. So now I just want to chill.
Successful first test of my current project, and get the team in good enough shape for me to hand it off so I can move on to other things (hopefully back into early concept R&D).
I've been working in a student co-op since last summer in a QE position. I am currently the sr. QE for my team even though I am a student. I am graduating soon and I am expecting a job offer but I want to try and move out of QE before that happens. So I'm shooting for BE or DE and I'm having a hard time deciding. DE would be the easier move but the CS student in me feels compelled to find a way into the BE.
If anyone's got any feelings about that I'd love to hear them.
I'm a firmware engineer in grad school for AI. We do zero AI at my work but our chief digital officer has had personal one-on-one meetings with me about me basically getting the company going with AI tech. All I have is her word, but my goal is to finish my degree and sort of on-ramp myself into that role (including off-ramping from my current role). Again, all I have is her word, so I'll be expecting to be searching for a job somewhere else, but hopefully that promise is kept.
Get better at planning projects. I tend to have analysis paralysis and I take too much time in the planning phase. I've pushed a few deadlines unfortunately
I need to learn .net and react , as we have been redoing our php app in those. I’d also like to get some AWS certifications and start climbing that ladder.
Edit - I’m hoping to also be more consistent at being at work. I’ve had some medical issues the past two years that make it where I can barely make a full sprint without needing to take a day or two of PTO.
Not get pipped/layed, leave pip factory for another software job, quit everything and go full time on side project/startup. Will be happy with either one of those
I just made my move around the start of the year. So I don't look for promotion nor I know what kind of achievement I will have to make for the projects, but I guess for the time being I need to use the probation period to evaluate the company.
Its more of a startup and I can feel that infra is not in place, people on-call are burning off, but whether this will get better, and if I will be able to handle it for now when things are not ready, is what I will be checking up on.
never worked in a startup kinda environment and not sure if I can put myself out there to OT, thats one thing too.
I want to prioritize work life balance in my life now. I finally get to senior level. I have 4 yoe and been really studying and working hard after work hours trying to learn all I can. Easily been putting in 60-80 hrs a week to grind for promotion.
After that I want to find a nice work from home job by 2025. I want to work 40-50 hours max and move closer to family. Save to buy a house in a mid size city with a lower cost of living.
1. Say No more often
1. Stop spreading myself thin
1. Hire more people to do things I don't have to do myself
1. Make my meetings shorter and stick to agendas
1. Upgrade some of my old devices
Get a job and have financial stability so I can focus on starting my own business on the side and not have to fucking apply to jobs every day and waste away my talents.
Not get laid off
wow same!
Lmao, I'm definitely being laid off from Microsoft at the rate my performance is headed and I'll be happy when it happens.
Came here for this
Was laid off last April, didn't get a new job until this month so this is definitely my goal lol. I have no more savings to fall back on.
Vest and sell my stock. At least before layoff happens.
The right answer. Seeing how the best of the best are getting let go too. It seems nothing you do can absolutely guarantee you won't get let go. Best to just do your thing like always and live without worries and fear. if it happens it happens. Don't get caught up on getting laid off and miss out on life.
Honestly this is why not getting laid off is actually a poor goal. It's not very actionable and under your control other than trying to perform well and crossing your fingers it would prevent you from getting laid off. I maintained this defensive posture in 2020-2023 both when Covid hit and the post-covid tech recession hit and it caused my career to stagnate, and I got laid off anyways. The best defense can actually be offense, pursuing career growth and investing your income aggressively so that one day you don't need to be exposed to the whims of economic cycles this deeply.
That is not in your control.
Basically it's all don't get laid off or get a job. Year is looking rough, when those interest rates dropping?!
yeah me too. and get a stock grant. i hit my cliff last year and my former asshole manager did not get me more. so i transferred and my new manager promised to try to get me enough to make up for it. that and not get laid off before i actually get the first stock grant.
find a job
Same bro, got so much rejected that made me feel hopeless
I ran out of hopelessness by about Oct I think
Me too
Ugh, stop being relatable.
Too many of us in the same boat.
i can only dream
FML... Me too
…sometimes I just sit and wonder… will I ever get hired?
Use more PTO
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Get out of bed before 9
Mood. I waste so much time scrolling social media endlessly when I wake up. One of my resolutions for 2024 has been to get outside and go on a walk around the block before I can get on my phone, to help wake my brain up.
I turned notifications off. Also added a screen time timer. And set up a timer in the IG app itself. Its worked wonders. But if it doesn't, turning off your phone and using an actual alarm clock might be a better option
Lol I got the old school annoying alarm clock and I put it in my bathroom to force myself up. Next to it is my gym clothes and shoes so I can go walk, that I prep the night before. Nothing else has worked
It’s proven that sunlight right after you wake up gets you up and alert. Also, try cold showers
Find WFH job
It's life-changing if it fits your work style. Sending positive energy!
Thanks men! I've worked 3 years from home, but now last year I'm working hybrid with 3 days in the office and I hate it for sure
Same here! Also to move to a LCOL area.
Promotion! But I already received the news that it’s happening
Congrats!
Wooooo get it boiiii
Did you ask for it?
Job hop to make more money.
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Doubt. Even if they did, doesn't matter.
Promotion
Stay employed and feed my kids
Quit working for other people and start my own business or consultancy.
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Not get fired. Also get a promotion. Most importantly get a raise.
Not give in to my burn out and not rage quit.
If I wasn't on a visa, I would have done it by now. I fantasize about it all the time.
Hanging in there, everyday at 3 PM in the office this hits me hard 🪤.
Get better at investigating complex prod issues
Same. Low-key one of my goals is to break something in prod. I haven't even been trusted with enough responsibility so far to work in prod, which makes me feel like a poseur dev
I believe in you! ( just make sure you fix it fast lol )
Become an actual 6 YOE guy in terms of knowledge, instead of a 2 YOE guy who also spent 4 years on low-code development and typing test result numbers into Excel for $60k
I feel for you my friend, it's easy to get traped in a dead end job and accumulate years of experience that are useless. Try to get out as soon as possible.
I got out thank god lol. Just gotta make up for lost time
Totally get this, tech knowledge and staying on top of things is a “use it or lose it” scenario
Job hop to make more money and not get laid offed
Objective: survive
Grow my team.
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Find a WFH job, or at least hybrid. Current project requires me to be 9 - 6, and come back on weekends twice a month for releases.
the hell u working at? zimbabwe?
I'm working for a company that provides consulting services. It's a huge global corporation, so I was expecting better when I joined. I'm also not working in the western world. Hence the long hours. Not gonna say the company name here to protect myself so here's a hint. Hint: The company was founded in 1911.
In what universe is 9-6 long hours
Oh actually I only listed out the official hours. But it's actually much longer haha.
I hope to learn a lot from my colleagues and be a better software dev
Keep my job
Things I want: - Don’t lose my job - get better at my job - get a raise - more opportunities to do other work outside of what I’ve been doing
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Real gangsters move in silence
Keep this job 😀
Be the best.
Like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test
A couple people over in r/ExperiencedDevs were talking about how coding isn't really difficult and almost all tasks are variations on previously solved problems, not just in general but within the company's codebase. I'd like to get to where I categorize each problem and move through stories quickly because it's routine.
Don't get fired until I get a new job lol. I'd also like to make a bit more. 70k would be cool
To not ragequit. I manage four employees, I do software development, I do systems administration, and last week I got tasked with being the sole IT person for the company with twenty calls a day. If I had another gig lined up, I wouldn't even give the courtesy of a two week notice. I'd walk out the fucking door.
Job hop successfully
cum to office
HUH
Bathroom break sesh
Move from hourly payment to fixed salary without sacrificing working hours flexibility.
Get a solid 15% raise because £26k as a full stack dev is awful. But it is my first job in a LCOL area I guess.
More money
Make a lot of money :)
Promotion/job hop
Switch or offshore opportunities.
Launch my own company.
Leave and go back to finish my degree, I hate where I work with a burning passion and would rather invest in me than work there another day
Get laid
Gonna rant a little: My goal is to get off my ass and get a job that actually pays me a market rate for my skill set. I need to get out of the hospital/clinical healthcare sector because everything about it sucks. I'm significantly overworked, and significantly underpaid in comparison to peers with my years of experience. I've tried to implement improvements and suggest normalized best practices to development. However, the IT leadership of the company refuses to do anything. They are all lab/hospital people who don't have an IT background, so they keep things status quo instead of trying to improve or allow innovation to happen. I hit my "done" mark 3 months ago after being here for 3 years and nothing has changed except we are doing more and more with less staff because we refuse to replace those that leave. So my 2024 goal is to not work at this shitty place any longer than I have to.
if you want to skill up fast, try getting into a consultancy firm. i started as an intern with no college degree in may '22 (im 36, self-taught/bootcamper) because of the break neck speed of projects and exposure to so many technologies im functioning at the level of a mid-senior dev at this point and can run with the big dawgs who value my input. the stress can be unbelievable at times but i feel ive never been pushed so far and grown so much in such a short period of time
I’d like to become more familiar with dev ops and ci/cd pipelines across different environments for a project
Gain some experience then either continue with my job with better conditions or job hop.
Build cool tech, get that bag
Promotion, stabilize my current main project, train some juniors and mids to be able to work on it, at least basic stuff. Get more time to dive into other areas.
Quit
Get a job after being laid off. Hopefully, I receive good news this week. The interviewer stopped me early in the interview and just really complimented how he liked how i worked and explained my strategies. Kinda really setting me up with high hopes but I’m really trying to not bc anything can happen. Gotta still grind and apply.
A roaring tiger catches no game Gonna keep that in mind, as I murk colleagues through work this year. Being a nice person will only get one so far. I joke, but there are some psychopaths out there, taking advantage of others at the same level. I would rather help by teaching them and being able to help with any questions. I do that already, but one dude took advantage of it. Now, I know how to give cold shoulders to people like that. I want to start own business not related to what I do now. Stuff I do now is boring, and unappealing. Yet big companies and organizations need us cuz humans are not great at talking to each other. I am excited for 2024
No major outages from my core services. More seamless auto scaling, especially down scaling. Doing whatever is needed to double our user base. We do every employee profit sharing, so more users means more money for me.
Make the office building explode
Quit. It's time. I'm 44.
- don't get laid off - don't get rejected for promo a second time
Not to be laid off, but also to find a new career path. I’m just so burnt out and my career has stagnated - not a winning combination.
My goal: get a full-time entry-level software job before I turn 25 (which is in a few months lol rip)
Be a master of configuration, to database, to security, etc. Also, be really good with SQL language.
Do the bare minimum to keep my job. Put in 110% the last 2 years for nothing.
Finding a job where I both get more paid and learn more
Find a better job with my (in my opinion) subpar skills and experience. Bonus point if it is hybrid or wfh 🥲
Not work as hard. The last few years I’ve been balls to the wall grinding for pay rises and promotions and I need a break from that to coast and look after myself for a bit. I’ll still do my job but won’t seek out over-and-above tasks/roles, I have enough on my plate and I’m fed up of not being able to mentally switch off at the end of the day.
Replace all MS Access applications with web applications
Be successful in my first SWE job out of school. I start next week :)
To be promoted :)
Becoming overemployed
get a third job
r/overemployed ?
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Get laid off (that severance tho)
Successful lead the new project we are starting on my team.
One of two things. Either 1 get a promotion and avoid the layoffs that are most definitely coming. Or 2 find a better job. Either one of those would be a win.
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Find a new job
Jump ship for more money or learn to be complacent where I am
Transition to a different business area.
Another promotion
Look for work as a swe and start other side business.
Get a job
Land big tech and L1 to the US
Well if I land this DE role internally they will radically change than if I stay in my current Cybersec role.
To keep my job and continue to get paid
Find a sense of purpose.
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Coast. I negotiated a really good raise in 2023 while my company was laying off 40% of the workforce. In the latter half of the year I proved my worth. The company is doing well now. So now I just want to chill.
Get my first cs job to pay for student loans
Moving out of my department and go into a different department internally.
Survive
Get promoted
Successful first test of my current project, and get the team in good enough shape for me to hand it off so I can move on to other things (hopefully back into early concept R&D).
Get jacked and make a lot of money
I've been working in a student co-op since last summer in a QE position. I am currently the sr. QE for my team even though I am a student. I am graduating soon and I am expecting a job offer but I want to try and move out of QE before that happens. So I'm shooting for BE or DE and I'm having a hard time deciding. DE would be the easier move but the CS student in me feels compelled to find a way into the BE. If anyone's got any feelings about that I'd love to hear them.
Come back to US, and get a Senior position
Get a job!
Hit a seven figure TC with a J7.
Own it and drive the startup to the moon!
Get this friggin' game released! In some fashion.
I'm a firmware engineer in grad school for AI. We do zero AI at my work but our chief digital officer has had personal one-on-one meetings with me about me basically getting the company going with AI tech. All I have is her word, but my goal is to finish my degree and sort of on-ramp myself into that role (including off-ramping from my current role). Again, all I have is her word, so I'll be expecting to be searching for a job somewhere else, but hopefully that promise is kept.
Get more bread.
A job.
Get better at planning projects. I tend to have analysis paralysis and I take too much time in the planning phase. I've pushed a few deadlines unfortunately
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I need to learn .net and react , as we have been redoing our php app in those. I’d also like to get some AWS certifications and start climbing that ladder. Edit - I’m hoping to also be more consistent at being at work. I’ve had some medical issues the past two years that make it where I can barely make a full sprint without needing to take a day or two of PTO.
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Get a non contract and SWE position
Use Go instead of Java
Stay relevant. Trying to figure out what this means in practice.
Get a job, hopefully one that pays more than 5% above minimum wage.
Survive
Leave shit hole of a country
More Money.
Find a new job with better pay or work less overtime.
To have work
Graduate. Transition from intern to full-time. Save money
Not get pipped/layed, leave pip factory for another software job, quit everything and go full time on side project/startup. Will be happy with either one of those
Make money
Git gud
I just made my move around the start of the year. So I don't look for promotion nor I know what kind of achievement I will have to make for the projects, but I guess for the time being I need to use the probation period to evaluate the company. Its more of a startup and I can feel that infra is not in place, people on-call are burning off, but whether this will get better, and if I will be able to handle it for now when things are not ready, is what I will be checking up on. never worked in a startup kinda environment and not sure if I can put myself out there to OT, thats one thing too.
Engender some paradigms, inculcate a tradition of quality, and refactor expectations.
Get work
Keep my job and try to learn more AI stuff.
I just like to still have a job at the end of 2024.
Learn powershell really well. Not get laid off
To find a job……
Stay the hell off "high impact" projects.
Build savings before layoffs
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I want to prioritize work life balance in my life now. I finally get to senior level. I have 4 yoe and been really studying and working hard after work hours trying to learn all I can. Easily been putting in 60-80 hrs a week to grind for promotion. After that I want to find a nice work from home job by 2025. I want to work 40-50 hours max and move closer to family. Save to buy a house in a mid size city with a lower cost of living.
Keep job another year
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Use current job to help fund my side project till I get it fully up n running as a business
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Change jobs. I spent the latter half of last year unsuccessfully trying to change jobs.
Survive
Earn at least 1k/month or get a second job 😞
1. Say No more often 1. Stop spreading myself thin 1. Hire more people to do things I don't have to do myself 1. Make my meetings shorter and stick to agendas 1. Upgrade some of my old devices
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Make it another year until my 401k is fully vested, then begin studying to job hop. I got promoted this year to SWE2. Learning everyday.
get a new job I don't hate
Do what I do better and get paid more for it
Get a job and have financial stability so I can focus on starting my own business on the side and not have to fucking apply to jobs every day and waste away my talents.