Career Plan: The one year plan. The three year plan.
- by drelihan
Hi Folks,
I work as a developer however I only recently began developing full time having worked for 5 years in various roles. When it comes to career planning I think I pretty much agree with The Journeyman to Craftsman model coined in The Pragmatic Probrammer and used by Bob Martin. I see myself as a journeyman and I won't call myself a "good" (for want of a better word) until I re-evaluate my skills in 5 years time.
However, as part of our careers we are encouraged to make one and three year plan with specific goals that we should hit. Unfortunately, my goal is this:
Write clean code that solves a problem and is easy to maintain.
From a technology point of view I want to know C++ and .net programming inside out(C#, WCF etc..)
But that's it. That's my plan. Is this enough?
So although there's a great discussion on what people should do with their career:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11313/career-planning-any-tips
My question is this:
What's your one year plan?
What's your three year plan?
And am I being naive with my career?
Thanks,
