Are programmers terrified or excited about being a “Jack Of All Trades”? | Specialist or generalist?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2022
- Afraid of becoming Jack of all trades? Or being a master of one? Fear can freeze our decision making ability and focus, and we can possibly make a wrong choices out of instinctive reaction.
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I had a similar experience when I was looking for my first job. I wanted to be just a Unity developer since I loved videogames and I was good at it, but it turned out there were ZERO Unity or game development jobs in my city. so I started my career as a web developer, had to learn nodejs on the fly, and I havent stopped learning new things ever since. Ive learning everything from AI to mobile development. backend microservices, etc, and I love it.
true, my passion will always be videogames, but sometimes you need to adapt.
Makes sense. Do you make games in your free time?
(if you think about it, whole programming career is a "open world" game, with challenges, rules and tricks to advance)
@@ApplicableProgramming Yes I do make little games from time to time.
true, being a programmer is like being a Skyrim character haha
@@TheGothGaming Ha! you play Skyrim? It is the only game I keep installing back, now probably for the fourth time... and some parts I am familiar with, but boy oh boy do I get surprised every time I play it how some things change and how many things are new that I never touched in the previous playthroughs. It is just enormous is what it is.
Do you make Unity games or something "easier"?
I tested unreal engine, we are purchasing the house, so I wanted to see how spot lights would look in "real life" :)
and boy is it powerful real time reneding..
@@ApplicableProgramming haha! Yes, Skyrim is very good. Worth playing over and over.
I do make Unity games(as a hobby), but the company I work for uses Unity mostly for VR: inspection and training scenarios, not games. Still it is really fun.
Unreal Engine is definitely the most powerful, I havent used it much yet.
@@TheGothGaming Never compared them, but I like the looks of this www.gamesradar.com/skyrims-beloved-riverwood-has-been-recreated-in-unreal-engine-5
I started out as a Data Scientist only coding in my beloved jupyter notebooks mostly with data wrangling and model training, then started to care about the whole project scope from writing custom python packages for our use cases with maintained CI/CD pipelines serving the models via an API and providing everything dockerized for the other team who maintains our k8 cluster. After that I volunteered to also write a new internal react app from scratch while only having dabbled a bit in it in my free time. A whole new set of problems, new language, new framework, authentication, didnt even know basic css anymore etc. Now I am learning about K8 in my free time since the app has at least 3 components by now and looks like the perfect opportunity to throw that in. I am one of those people who really hate not knowing something and I feel I can now make much more informed decisions for any of our projects since I can basically reason about any part of the project stage by now
great job man. you are doing very well... But let me ask you, are you a programmer, or a person who likes to make stuff - and programming is just a tool you use to build things?
Could not have been a better name channel! Needed to hear this from somebody further done the trail. RESPECTFULLY.
Thanks mister, glad it helped you!
Favorite "illegal" camping site caught me off guard and had me rolling. Well done sir.
Hehe, it is actually right on the line of where it is allowed to camp... So it you pee looking at the city, you are good :)
May i ask how you have found the video sir? Did you search for something specific?
Great thoughts and very good production quality! Thanks
Thanks for watching Hans, and for commenting as well :)
"If all tools you can use is a hammer, you'll perceive all problems as a nail" 👍
My point exactly...
@@ApplicableProgramming yeah it's just a nice quote 👍
I think I needed to hear that. Thanks for the video!
Thanks Breno, thank you for watching :)
I feel pretty identified with many things you said... I was afraid of being a "jack of all trades" since I've worked in many tech areas, but everything summarizes in being adaptive, responsive and a solver. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing man. Do you primarily do programming now?
@@ApplicableProgramming Lasts years I've been leading a dev team. But I dissolved the agency and jumped into the job market applying as a developer again. I am hoping to enroll in your course when I have some cash to invest.
@@jpgsolucionestecnologicas6682 Great, looking forward to seeing you. Meanwhile, you can try to find design patterns in sources of frameworks or applications, I have few videos like that (releasing new one this week). It is a great exercise to learn to recognize design patterns in unknow code.
Have you found a job, or still looking?
@@ApplicableProgramming Thanks for the advice. I am still looking for a job.
This resonates very well with my career so far :D Great video!
Thank you for sharing, and commenting ;)
Nicely done! Great insights and storytelling!
Ah thanks man, I really appreciate it :)
very kind of you to share the video as well, kudos sir!
@@ApplicableProgramming you're welcome. you deserve it!
This was an awesome video! :)
Thanks man, glad you liked it :)
As a starter in programming, I think this is very good advice.
Which technology are you starting with?
@@ApplicableProgramming I'm one year into C, using mainly VS Code. I'm now starting to learn OOP with Java.
@@acartola1950 The closest I got to C was Arduino :D
Hi sir, love your creative videos
Would you make sometime video about php unit testing please, i think it would help more unserstand design principles from testing perspective. :)
Have a good evening
Great suggestion El Bartos. I have in mind a tutorial on unit testing, I just need to get my time on it, and find out what is the best approach to do it properly.
Great video, great story.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the video. It's so cool with valuable thoughts and advice. You deserve hundred thousand subscribers.
Ahhh you are too kind, thank you sir!
Do you work as programmer already, or stil learning?
@@ApplicableProgramming Hi sir. Glad you recognized me. I'm still at learning process with some pauses time by time. I started learning Laravel after finding out that I'm not keen on Wordpress and it's not for me. Actually I've always wanted to find my first junior remote job mainly in Ukraine or Russia. Even I sent some requests with my resume to the vacancies around February 20th, then I had some test tasks from them. Unfortunately, the war ruined the plans like other millions plans. Junior PHP dev jobs immediately disappeared, thus it has become so hard to find junior positions in those countries. Job requirements have also become more than before. But I'm not going to give up. I'll go on learning and I hope soon I'll find my first job.
@@bakhadirtureev1215 yeah, it is difficult no question... In Serbia we had at least two wars while I was growing up. But I like your positivity, at the end even if you send 100 applications, you only need one job. A lot of companies are not sure what to do, so they stopped hiring new people, especially juniors. The same happened here in Norway when corona started, noone knew what is going to happen. But slowly people started to find new opportunities, and create opportunities for people who never had them, and I am sure same will start to happen with IT. Because it just has to, world goes on, and digital automation is more and more important lately.
How about other countries, is it difficult to find jobs?
I know that a lot of people in Serbia are working remotely for the US, not sure if that could help you.
@@ApplicableProgramming The second year of the pandemic (2021) was much more better than this period of time. There were lots of PHP vacancies then. I hope there are some chances of finding junior positions in European countries which I can't say about the USA. As GMT difference is about 10 hours between the US and my country. It seems too inconvenient when it comes to working remotely. Lots of Russian companies have been establishing their branches here in Uzbekistan since the spring. Maybe the jobs I have been searching for will be found here.
@@bakhadirtureev1215 I understand... hopefully it can change. What about some frontend jobs, maybe you can learn some javascript SPA framework, like angular or react?
Really good video, as a junior I highly appreciate the food for thought
Thanks man, glad you liked it. What are you working with if I may ask?
@@ApplicableProgramming As a full stack I am working with symfony, node, golang, aws, react, next, that's about it
@@alexIVMKD Well... I like how you say "that is about it", as if it is two small things you work with :D
All those are quite difficult on their own, let alone combined for one person :)
@@ApplicableProgramming Ohh, stop it ahah, that's very nice of you!
I am doing breadth first and then specialization, but even then I will know a bit about everything, the point you give in the video is spot on imo 💪
good question Sir David 😂👍
Sir David is a good friend, returning the favor :)
His transitions are legendary
Ah thanks man, glad you liked them :) I did use some time to write them as well (ridiculously too much time to be honest :) )
May I ask how did you find the video?
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I've learned a lot and had fun watching this video, thank you
Glad to hear that! Thank you for watching. May I ask how you got to the video? Was it from youtube home page or?
@@ApplicableProgramming Yes I found it on the youtube homepage, and then I binge watched your videos, I hope you'll keep publishing new videos because I am learning a lot from your channel, Thank you again
@@ta9sas It is comments like this that keep the channel going, so thank you for sharing your experience :)
Do you work as a programmer already? (I guess, since youtube thought you will watch programming tips)
@@ApplicableProgramming I mostly make wordpress plugins with php for work, beside that I make side projects with ReactJS and NodeJS ( and sometimes LARAVEL ) and also currently trying to learn RUST
@@ta9sas that is a nice skillset. Why RUST if I may ask?
really appreciated the fun parts besides the advices :DD liked that
Hey Horváth how is life? glad you liked the video. Any progress on the job front if I may ask?
@@ApplicableProgramming Absolutely. I am a Junior Software Engineer (PHP backend) at a big multinational IT company at Budapest. I love it and I'm having a huge progress day by day. It was very very hard to get to this point as a self taught, not gonna lie, but finally it seems my career is boosting. Special thanks for your work for the community! Very helpful for me and many others.
@@zoltanhorvathandsomenumbers Congratulations! I remembered last time that you said you were applying, great to hear you got some position. What do they use PHP if you can elaborate? Is it website or some applications? Usually Java is popular at big companies, at least here in Norway
@@ApplicableProgrammingThank you, Dalibor! : ) Yes Java and C# are the most common at the company but PHP is getting more and more popular. These are quite robust applications, in fact.
That is not often heard to be honest, usually people like to bash on PHP. I guess marked decides at the end, not the trend setters :)
In my last company we had at least 10 "real" programmers doing things in Java, and embarrassingly amount of times have I saved the day doing something easy and quick in PHP, because to do the same thing in Java would require weeks and $$ in resources, while 100 lines of PHP would get the same effect.
I remember my boss struggling to understand any of the arguments the "real programmers" would give him against the PHP solution, because he wanted good solutions, not "better solutions"
custom php applications... takes a while to learn. but i know some... php is not a pretty language. but very good for web applications...
do you work with php?
This is fantastic 😂
Thanks man!
underrated channel
Uh thank you man. May I ask how you ended up on the video?
@@ApplicableProgramming I was watching programming videos and your video showed up on my recommended bar, and now I started getting your videos on my main feed
@@Lewboskii Thanks for sharing
Lmao loved the video, your funny af 😀😂
Thanks Lag, glad you liked it. May I ask how did you got to the video? By search or did it pop up on youtube?
I love this guy 😂
Thanks man, love you too!
Pretty good!
Thanks man, glad you liked it!
May I ask how you found the video?
@@ApplicableProgramming random YT recommendation on the home page
@@ludo3941 Cool bro, finally got TH-cam to recommend one of my videos :)
Do you do programming professionally ? Since YT figured this video might interest you
@@ApplicableProgramming I'm currently taking a master's degree in CS and studying full-time. I also have been watching a lot of similar videos to this, so i guess that's why.
@@ludo3941 that it cool. I am studying beside the work, and... I struggle with time :D
Which area of CS are you interested?
I think I'm also a jack of all trades. However, in some job interviews there are asking me how much years experience I have in a specific technology, language, e.g. python and there I can not say I'm doing python already 5 or 10 years although python wouldn't be a problem for me....
Finny you mention that, as I am now doing some interviews and get mixed opinions about that.
Do you think that few years in some specific technology would make you less attractive candidate? While you do have a lot of years in something other?
I don't think from my point of view that I'm less attractive, but I saw that a headhunter didn't even consider me for a Java job because I have less years in Java event though I think it would be easy to adapt.
@@ovb7 I see... I guess that for a position of a java developer, candidates with most years of experience, on paper, have an advantage.
For sure we know that paper holds everything, and saying that iphone has worse camera then huawei, just because it has less megapixels is kinda same "paper to paper" comparison.
So... the job seeking process for sure has some place for improvement...
It looks like the algorithm is starting to discover you
Hehe, you are bombarded by my videos now?
@@ApplicableProgramming I see a lot, and they're good so thanks. But I subscribed so that might be on me. But I never searched for you, your stuff just started popping up. I remember seeing a Hyperplexed vid and thinking "how can this guy only have like 2k followers?" and now he's halfway to the moon. Maybe the same thing will happen to you? Content is definitely good enough. Cheers!
@@bentoth4324 Ah so kind of you, you made my day Ben. Thank you.
I would be lying if I said that I don't secretly hope that my videos would become "popular" as you are describing it, by having algorithm discover me.
what is this video that you got recommended first? I assume you are doing some programming, web or something similar?
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I love illegal camping spots
Hehe, it is honestly on the very line where it is legal to camp and not. In Norway it is legal to camp pretty much any place, but this area is restricted due to drinking water from mountains. However, if you pee while looking at the city (which is the only correct way), then it is fine.
I'm jack of all trades but no one want to hire me because I lack in depth knowledge! 😂🤣😅
Well, that is pretty much a true story as well :)
I have a friend who struggles both to find new jobs, and to get a reputation because he is used to "his ways" of finding the solutions (that noone else understands :) ). But he is a good guy, and he definitively has his place in his team.
He is specializing in Java Spring though...