The Software Craftsman: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride (Virginia A Hendry's Library) by Sandro Mancuso

Author:Sandro Mancuso
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 2015-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

Summary

Delivering value to clients is the obligation of any professional who is paid to do a job. But there is far more to a job than that. Work doesn’t need to be the antonym of pleasure—we just need to know what to look for when choosing a job: autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Those are the three things that a craftsman should look for in each job. Although it’s not always easy to find jobs that can provide us that, they exist. Maybe we are just not ready to get these jobs yet.

The better we are, the easier it is to find jobs that give us pleasure. But to reach a point where we can choose the jobs we want, we need a lot of focus and determination while developing our careers. We need to understand where we want to be and work hard to get there. A successful career doesn’t come for free. We need to craft it. Our own careers should always take precedence over a career inside a company. It’s great when a career inside a company is aligned with our own career aspirations but it is often a mistake to let a company control our careers. Jobs are an investment. Carefully choosing our jobs and satisfying all our clients is the best way to construct a very successful and pleasant career as a software craftsman.

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