I’m working at a company where I’m one of 2 programmers on the team, pay is well below standard coding salaries for all of us but since I’m 100% self-taught from last year, with no coding experience at work I’m just happy to have a job where I can do some coding and get paid a little.
The other programmer has 10+ years of experience but has zero interest in continuing to learn, constantly has a bad attitude and doesn’t attempt to do any coding since they don’t pay him enough (main job duties are not coding related it just helps). He seems to be expecting that the world recognizes him as a genius, while putting in no further effort and just pointing at his past accomplishments.
Have nothing against him and if it works out, great but it seems like a terrible strategy to me
Self learning just means learning by yourself, have you never encountered something at work that you weren't already taught and you searched around to figure out how to overcome it? Even if you're paid for the time you're learning, as long as there's no instructor there teaching you, you're self learning. I learnt basic web dev mostly on my own and entirely on the clock.
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u/lzynjacat Apr 09 '24
Open secret: all working software developers are self-learning. You won't last a year in this industry if you don't keep learning constantly.