What's your age and what's your life advice to a younger software engineer?
Specifically,
do you actually feel you are helping people by writing software?
what makes you happy the most looking back?
what's your biggest regret looking back?
And anything else is welcomed, you may accidentally comfort a weary soul.
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Turned 30 in these 2 years and found myself kept wondering about the meaning of work and life. I've worked for startups, interesting journey but highly consuming & risky. And I've worked for the big names, totally disaster. Maybe I just can't stand not knowing what kind of benefit I can actually bring to the world by aligning stake holders and reinventing the wheels.
Now I'm trying my own product and the lack of feedback sometimes make me a little depressed. I sometimes don't know where life will bring me and what should I expect. Advice from the elders are the true things I need right now.