In an industry where many engineers are protrayed as heads down, headphones on, keyboard clacking individuals...sometimes I find it hard to navigate the emotions of the day to day.
College and studying on your own will teach you the ins and out of writing code and having proper syntax, but it does not teach communication or human interaction.
Sometimes it seems like simple interactions don't even phase my coworkers, but to me the emotions hit hard.
Like that time I spent weeks on code and met with my manager all for my manager to say "cool. Did you grab your next jira card?" I invested days on days and poured my heart into this code and my manager communicates as if he could care less.
Or the other time when I helped fix my coworkers code, made a pr for it, and upon review the only thing my coworker had to say was how the white space is messed up. Not even a thank you for assisting with the code.
I hope for future engineers that someone creates a resource to help teach engineers how to navigate their emotions and communications.
Is it just me? Have others observed this at their companies and careers?
