How Indecision Impacts Your Career Progress

https://www.growthcentre.org/effect-of-career-indecision/

Are you delaying career decisions hoping for the “perfect” answer? Indecision may lead to missed deadlines, poor academic choices, or job dissatisfaction. But clarity comes from taking action—not waiting for certainty. Discover how small steps can lead to big breakthroughs.

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UNLOCK YOUR CAREER: BEYOND WAITING, TOWARDS ACTION!

Are you waiting:

For the next promotion?

To be recognized for your efforts at work?

To make a career transition?

OR

For something to ‘good’ to happen … ?

Want to know why you should take positive, productive instead?

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When is old “too old”?

Intro

When I finished college, I had the intuition that I could be in business for long time, maybe the rest of my professional life -’cause I enjoyed most of what I studied. After a few years developing software, I came to realize, the word career is misused in my country/language: when you’re to choose your vocation, elder people tell you to choose a field of study, and they’d tell you “choose a career”.

Now, nearly twenty years after getting my bachelor’s degree, I realize indeed the term is better applied in English: career is what you do after you finish college: it’s a -hopefully- looong trajectory with -maybe- more ups than downs, where you will spend about one third of your daily life and -subtracting the necessary sleeping time-, even half of it when you’re awake.

but then…

But then you come to realize that a career in programming is actually a two fold one: you compete against the lighting fast technological pace of changes, plus you’re competing against your age -let alone the fact you’re competing against other recruits from very different backgrounds (e.g. physicists) who happen to be good programmers too. Seen than way, your career could be a short one; think more of professionals like soccer players, athletes, and the like.

Is that so? It is, because at some threshold -in some countries more well delineated than in others-, when you want to apply for a certain vacancy, you will be in the best case kindly neglected, and in the most blunt ones, you’ll be told you’re too old for that position. Don’t believe me?, read then Jesse Davis recent post, who did quite some work for me, because I can extract some facts from the post -worth reading it entirely:

• The median age in big tech companies like Amazon or Google is 30, and the average tenure there is about 2 years.
• According to StackOverflow’s 2018 developer survey, from “100,000 programmers around the world, […] three-quarters of them were under 35“
• A research paper mentioned in the same post, brings evidence that “the ‘STEM shortage’ phenomenon is explained by technological change.” This situation brings the following frequent scenario:
  • (recruiter) I need you to have x years experience with this <shiny_new_tech_here>.
  • (me) But I just learned it y months ago. However I have experience with z,a,b and c <old_technologies_here>.
  • (recruiter) I’m sorry , you can look at our website, and if there is another position you’re interested, please don’t hesitate to contact us again…

Now, this concern about age in programmers isn’t new at all. Looking back to a post 7-year-old, it is evident that somewhere between your 30s and 40+ somethings, your employability as developer will start to decline -whether you like it or not. There will always be outliers, and those believe me are the guys writing books, speaking at conferences, i.e. the gurus -which at any rate I doubt are more than 5% of the total workforce.

Moreover, following the Peter principle, quite some developers will be promoted to their incompetence level, and come to engross the management ranks -with minor to medium success I believe, given the results discussed in the Standish Group Report , or become bold and found a company or two…

what can be done, then?

When is old too old? Good question… If you think -just like me- that management is not the natural progression past your 30s, then you have to be like the sharks: in any case you have to keep moving…. That means moving in two fronts:

• Keep your professional network active. You never know when the next corporative layoff/dismissal comes. It might be just around the corner, and regardless your age! Working remotely might make it a bit of a challenge, however this should not be an excuse to strengthen bonds with other peers. So here you have to think about conferences, hackatons, (virtual) hangouts, memberships, etc.
• Stay hungry for learning. There’s simply no other way around. Uncle Bob Martin advocates strongly for being professional, meaning (among other things) we have to keep learning and mastering our skill way beyond the latest formal education diploma we’ve received. No STEM study/academical degree can prepare you for the future good enough. Currently, practitioners in the trenches have as best options certifications and MOOCS available -which hopefully your employer/personal budget can afford. Another alternative -provided you have the time and energy for it-, is to participate and learn from/on the many open source projects out there.

I close with this reminder -in my mother tongue- for my younger -and now maybe more marketable- peers: Como te ves, me ví; como me ves, te verás.

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