It is never too late to learn something like this. Especially now when there are so many resources that can help you to learn it. It is another story if you want to find a job as a programmer, because I think the majority of companies prefer to hire younger talents.
Python is an excellent choice for a beginner.
Good luck and keep going!
That’s the agile mentality, where PO are pressuring you to deliver on your Sprint goals. In my opinion working on Scrums really burns down people
In my opinion you should take the opportunity and check if you will like this new job. And mind you in a lot of jobs there is room for some programming to automate some processes internally in the company if you feel like it.
But it is great that you acknowledge your weaknesses and accept them. I am also leading a team of sw devs and have a couple of juniors in my team and I try to dedicate enough time to them to explain to them more complex topics, give them recommendations on how to write better and more maintainable code, etc. And I have the feeling your lead isn’t doing much or showing interest in your work, which is a pity and very demotivating because I have been in your shoes before and know exactly the feeling.
And a bit of perspective, I have a guy in my team who is pretty smart and overall a great Dev, the problem is that it is extremely difficult to work with him, he doesn’t have a high working culture, thinks that others are stupid and doesn’t do his job well. I know how much he can but it is really a pain to work with him. Believe me I tried a lot of different approaches with him to make it work and so far with mixed results.
On the other hand I have a junior in my team who isn’t the best programmer and I believe he will never be, but he is very positive, works hard, really tries and in general has a very high work culture and it is so much more enjoyable to work with him, so you realise that skills and brain capacity aren’t everything and that sometimes work attitude is way more important.
I wish you all the best in your new endeavour and I hope you feel happier soon.
Fair point, my life is a bit fucked up at the moment and work is something I haven’t managed to fuck up yet and at least gives me a bit sense of accomplishment and it keeps me busy of not overthinking and getting crazy.
I know this is a treacherous road which often leads to workaholism and I guess I am half there yet. But I am also having sometimes problems of concentrating on more mundane and boring stuff and I procrastinate and working overtime is making things square.
When you are young everything looks so much simpler and the older you get the more demons there are and life fucks us over big time or at least some of us. And the worst part is when you realise that there isn’t anyone else’s fault, that due to your own stupidity you are in this situation but there isn’t coming back, you can’t reload life and you should continue playing this game till the very end and try to get the best of it.
And you know what’s even worse, that some people have it way worse than me and honestly speaking I don’t know how they manage to cope. I am more or less privileged to be born in Europe and have a safe and more or less comfortable life that we all take for granted.
Sorry for the rant!
I fell in the trap of the first two points and figured out that delegating tasks is really hard, as I usually can finish them faster.
But I am trying to protect my team and defend them in front of the upper management. It is okay for me to work overtime and not get compensated for that but it is not okay for them to do the same, as their salaries are lower.
You should also understand that different people have different skillset/interest and are more suitable for different tasks. It is really important to know your team and to be able to motivate them.
And don’t forget to regularly check on them and show interest in their tasks. I am trying to create an atmosphere where we are all equal and we can all contribute to a task and I am also working along with them to show them a good example.
Don’t be naïve, the US knows it, but simply they don’t care, as it doesn’t fit their narrative
Let’s ban archaic units like feet and stick with cubic meter.
Plus there are vans, so the more accurate metric would be a cubic meter per passenger.
Why not rclone?
Straight from the Nazis playbook. Oh the turntables…
I am really curious how you would feel if you were on the other side of the fence, living in a makeshift tent and struggling to provide food for your baby.
I am sure you would have different thoughts and not so warm thoughts towards Israel. But it is all different from the comfort of your couch.
I just wonder how those soldiers will feel if someone tomorrow goes and puts their own houses on fire. And then tell me they don’t want to render the whole of Gaza inhabitable.
I heard about 190.
190/30.000 is 0.6%. plus they need to still provide definite proof that these people are indeed involved in acts of terrorism. And for the record that’s 0.6% of their total number of employees.
Do you seriously think that in any company/organization of this size there aren’t a couple of rotten apples?
Plus what is the alternative to UNRWA at the moment? Who is going to distribute the humanitarian aid in Palestine if UNRWA has to close? Or are you implying that all the Gazans are terrorists, including the newborns, etc. and that they all deserve to starve?
Even those numbers seem to be highly exaggerated to me, not to mention the moral question about whether teenagers deserve to be killed, or maimed. Don’t forget that Gaza’s population is around 2.4M, and the Hamas militants are estimated around 30K, so even if we think that the male population of Gaza is like 600K, 30K is like 5%. Assuming that they were not using high precision munitions and deliberately were using a lot stronger bombs in this conflict I highly doubt that your number is even close to the actual casualties.
Unfortunately I believe we will never learn the actual figures because both sides would try to exaggerate/downplay those numbers.
Plus I highly doubt that all the targets were legitimate military targets. Right now it looks like a vendetta to me, where Israel is trying to make the whole region inhabitable and make the life of regular Palestinians with no affiliation to any terrorist organization a hell. And guess what? That’s not a good recipe for peace or anything
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Add to this the building of the buffer zone, destroying the farmland and their intent to disband /defund UNRWA after the conflict ends.
Just to give you a perspective here we are talking about 12/13.000 total employees, that’s less than 0.1% of their staff.
And what is the plan to deliver the humanitarian aid in Gaza now that UNRWA is severely defunded?
Can’t agree more
The saddest thing is that you don’t have much choice do you. It is either Biden or Trump and then you need to decide what’s the lesser evil, isn’t it?
Tell me again how a dual-political system is again considered a democracy?
Weren’t the UN created after WWII exactly with the whole idea to create an international body that is to prevent the atrocities that occurred in WWII? The ICJ is part of the UN and was established at 16.06.1945.
And doesn’t Israel exist because of the same agency, the UN, which they now call antisemitic, just because they dare criticize them?
Not to mention that this Agile methodology is burning out people pretty fast. It puts a lot of pressure on developers.