mcraenich

I've got a few young boys, definitely too young for this at the moment, but I'm hoping to ensure that they become proficient typists at the right time.

When I was younger our elementary school used a combination of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, and forcing us to not look at our hands, but I'm not confident that all schools now take this skill as seriously as they should.

Has anyone tried to teach their kids themselves? How did you do it?

I acted as a Salesforce developer about ten years ago, and have since moved on to different stacks, but I figure this experience will be good to have in my back pocket.

I'm curious if there are any Salesforce developers here, how they feel about developing on the platform in 2023, and what the outlook is for this job market?

A little pre-amble, I make a good but moderate salary at a company with a great culture. For the most part I don't experience much stress day to day, and don't bring work home with me. I'm much more technically competent than the job requires, and don't find much of what I do hard to complete.

I could see myself getting a bit bored of it down the road, though, and I'm curious about the lived experience of software engineers in high-paying roles. Looking at remote roles across the United States, for example, there are some astronomical salaries available. But I'm wondering to what extent I'd pay for salaries like these in stress, and high pressure environments.

In your estimation is there a correlation between above-average pay and stress? Have you found making a high salary worth it?

I'm interested in doing some research on the long-term outlook of a few programming languages and technologies, and am wondering if there is a de-facto place, or a few places, to go for this information.

I know the Stack Overflow developer survey can be pretty good to understand what's happening now, but I'm more curious about long term projections.

Is this information available anywhere?