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When Developers Hit Their Capacity for Pain, Frustration and Career Dead Ends
The broken promise that breaks the developers back
Developers have limits but it takes time to realise you have hit them
It’s been the year of the big developer resignation — Why Are So Many Software Developers Quitting Their Jobs?. Where developers are quitting their jobs in greater numbers than any year before.
Quitting you job isn’t necessarily a bad thing and it could be that developers are taking advantage of the high demand for developers and are getting out of poor jobs where they are taken for granted — Why the Great Developer Resignation is a Good Thing
You can make a case that developers aren’t quitting their jobs, they are instead moving to new jobs that are better paid with better opportunities — It’s Not the Great Developer Resignation, Developers Are Playing Musical Chairs.
An end is a new beginning
The developers who I have spoken to recently are moving jobs not for more money but because they are tired of being taken for granted.
- Developers are moving jobs because they are tired of being put on terrible projects and not getting support from management
- Developers are moving because they are tired of career dead ends
- Developers are moving because they are tired of no investment
- Developers are moving because they are tired of seeing developers leave the team and their responsibilities being passed to the developers left with no extra benefits or pay.
The right words from management are only effective if action backs them up.
Football supporter
I read this article about a Tottenham Hotspur supporter, as a supporter of Ipswich Town football club, I can sympathise with. Football is a source of mostly frustration with small surprising pockets of joy.
This quote below sums up the pain beautifully:
The team still lacked any creative ideas — the default mode of every player was to pass the ball sideways — and Leeds, a side just…
