Talk about job for software developers

3. Job is your half-life
• 24h a day:
– 8 hours for sleep
– 8 hours for job
So, the righter you choose job => the better
your life is

4. Get a job => get a life

5. Maslow Pyramid, find your hot button

6. Wanna a stable job?

7. Job is unstable always, your
attitude to be adaptive with
changes to make you stable

8. Style of management

9. Hierarchy Company
• Based on theory X
• Salary is based on the structure => managers
have always higher salary than their
subordinates.
• Suitable for low-skilled work.
• …

10. Manager are
powerful

11. Micro - Management

12. The consequences
• Everyone wants to
become manager
for career path. 

13. You need a tittle?
• Think about your title is equivalent?
– Your daily task.
– Your salary.
– Your skills.

14. You really like to climb
ladder?
There are lots of steps
for you to climb

15. “Flat” organization
.

16. • Based on Theory Y.
• People are intelligent, self-motivated, work
really hard and enjoy their jobs
• Salary is based on how much value each
individual contribute for company, it does not
matter whether manager or subordinate
• Manager is less prominent: administrative
support and external relations

17. He’d no longer be a grade-motivated person.
He’d be a knowledge-motivated person. He
would need no external pushing to learn. His
push would come from the inside....
Apprenticeship patterns

18. Skill and experience
• Continuous learning,
personal development is
your responsibility. Or you
are behind others.
• Spend 20 hours to sharpen
your skills beside 40 hours
working, feasible?
• Avoid “degree of failure”

19. Know broad
• Read books, articles, blogs, tweets. Go to
conferences. Go to user groups. Participate in
reading and study groups. Learn things that are
outside your comfort zone.
• If you are a .NET programmer, learn Java. If you
are a Java programmer, learn Ruby. If you are a C
programmer, learn Lisp
The Code Cleaner, Robert C. Martin

20. Know deep
• You need knowledge of specific technologies to
do your job, but you need knowledge of
software engineering principles to do your job
well.
Steve McConnell

21. Practice
Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good.
It's the thing you do that makes you good

22. If you work for 10 years, do you get 10 years of
experience or do you get 1 year of experience 10
times?

23. Quit to win
• You actually lose if you choose the wrong job
• Quitting from a job you do not like
for something you DO like

25. Good job?
• Limited experience: repeat the same limited
experience over and over again
• Loss of freedom: heavy policy manual filled
with nonsense rules and regulations.
• Evil master: who is your daddy?
• …

26. Love what you do?

27. Or do what you love?

28. Do what you love => the money will follow

29. Dream job

30. Thank you