re: Growing Your Career

Lauren Smith — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:16:45 GMT

I think you make a great point. What I've noticed in my very short career in this industry, is that putting forth a little more effort results in some very big gains. The rate of change in the industry has reached a level that it's truly possible to get in on the ground floor of the Next Big Thing without any trouble at all.

Windows Vista, God-willing, will be out in a year, and that brings with it a host of new technologies that will need to be understood and mastered by programmers. By jumping the gun just a little, anyone can be the expert that everyone turns to.

The industry is much smaller than it appears, I think. I've seen stellar engineers snatched up by competitors, and I've seen similar stellar engineers left behind. The primary difference is the level of visibility that they had in the industry, or on a smaller scale, the immediate customers.

With the internet nowadays allowing anyone to add their voice, those who do so consistently and helpfully raise their visibility far past levels previously achievable.

Even this comment does its part to raise my visibility (which would be a good thing if I had anything worth being visible ;-) With the right kind of career planning and focus on achieving those plans, writing your own ticket is just a matter of time.

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