Is software development a good career?
If you are a gifted computer wizard from age 7, there’s no doubt you’ll become a great software developer Company . But if this is not the case, why should you be one of those people spending all day typing at a keyboard making the machine do what you want? I’m assuming you are willing to choose this career in order to make a living, and not just for your own enjoyment. Enjoying the career is another topic, and one that must be carefully evaluated. If you strive and don’t really care about computers all that much, then software engineering will not be a good choice, because in order to be good, you need to spend countless, countless hours refining your craft, keeping up with the industry at large, getting to know every single little detail you should know to do your work properly. You will learn every day Every day you’ll be presented with new challenges. You’re an engineer working on potentially very complex problems. You need to know how to figure things out, and...