The Software Engineer's Guidebook

TAKEAWAYS

The tech industry is fast-moving and most developers tend to change jobs every few years. At the same time, most of us working in tech can expect our careers to last decades. In the article A forty-year career⁠¹, CTO and author Will Larson reflects on a typical career outside of tech:

“My father retired a few years ago, having worked as a professor at the University of North Carolina Asheville for the significant majority of his adult life. Since then I’ve spent more time than expected reflecting on his retirement and his preceding career. In particular, reflecting on the idea that my career is something I can deliberately develop over a forty-year horizon. Not four IPOs, not fourteen two-year stints, but forty years. ...