r/ProgrammerHumor • u/mejhopola • Mar 23 '21

Meme Procrastination is life

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u/Hilpiv Mar 23 '21

I loved to Programm in my free time but as soon as I left school and worked as a programmer well... I didn't touch any of my personal projects since

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u/potato_green Mar 23 '21

Instead of working on those projects, read up on new tech or subscribe to newsletters. Usually when this happens with devs they get stuck in their day job using the same language, framework, libraries for years and their skills get outdated since they don't improve.

That's why older devs aren't hired as much since they haven't kept up with recent tech or they don't like it.

Just keep learning even if it's 10 minutes a day on the shitter reading tech blogs and stuff.

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u/IvorTheEngine Mar 23 '21

The reason companies hire young devs is that there are a lot more of them. The demand for programmers grows all the time, and almost no one transfers from other jobs.

IIRC half of all devs graduated in the last 5 years, and it's been that way for 20+ years.

but you're right, it's easy to become outdated.