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Ah the “this wasn’t what I was hired for” problem.
Second company I ever worked for I was employed as a .NET dev I spent 80% of my time writing PHP
Third company employed again as a .NET dev I spent 70% of my time writing Swift (iOS dev).
Which brings me to my current role again employed as a .NET dev who spends 60% of his time writing JS. Apparently I’m a “full stack developer” now. -
@delegate212 The worst part for me is having to interact with, well not really clients, but non-technical people from the rest of the company. I am not a people person by any stretch of the imagination, even among my own kind
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@TheBeardedOne Sadly part of the job might it be clients or non technical management. There’s no getting away from it.
As for not writing any code - I assume this is your first role? If not then just leave.
However, if it is keep on top of your game via self learning, bag time spent on your CV (stick around a little longer if required) then GTFO. -
I was hired as a .net dev at my current company, to take over from a dead guy (traffic accident).
Ended up not writing a single line of C#, but used almost every other tech stack since . Awesome learning experience, I have no regrets.
If they ever tried to make me do admin shit, I would GTFO as soon as my contract allows.
Right so I'm new here. I don't really bitch much. Just want to see what it's like.
So I was hired supposedly for my java skills. I've been here 11 months. I've written exactly 0 lines of Java. On plus side I have gotten the opportunity to learn c# on the job but on the downside I spent my first 6 months fighting to get admin rights. I'm on my fourth company laptop (don't ask) and every time I have do the fight again. So I wound up doing a lot of not-programmer-stuff while I was waiting on admin rights. Apparently a lot of this is now permanently part of my job.
I was chatting to one of the more senior guys in another team here and he said he hated the first few years of his career, just doing "stupid front end stuff, move this box over there, make that button look pretty" meanwhile I'm sitting here wishing I could have the chance to at least be writing code
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