fatherofone

Working in a non-IT company isn't easy in a sense that shareholders find it hard to justify expenses on tools / platforms, better resources altogether.

We have a small software development team and its currently considered as overhead while budgeting for the year.

Have you every been in this situation and tried to link work done in-house to revenue generated by the company? I want to do this because its hard to get salary raise and even harder to get funds for better tools.

Cheers,

I recently had one of my colleagues comment on my GitHub account graph - 'There won't be many green boxes in your account once you have a kid'. This was in response to my suggestions on how we should all keep learning.

I argued many good programmers have family with kids and still manage to keep up. They brushed me off saying it's just not possible or they don't look after their kids.

When i look up the internet I find people doing full time job delivering products while having a family and some still find plenty of time to blog or write books. How is this possible? Are these people super-human? How are you all doing or managing if you have kids/family?