Episode 370 : The architect
When I was at high-school, I was asked 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' I always replied 'I want to write programs'.
A commonly-asked question in job interviews those days were always 'Where do you see yourself ten years from now?' I would reply 'As an architect'. That means, I saw myself working as a software architect while in my mid-30s.
Three years ago, when I was in my mid-30s, I had to get used to being officially referred to as the lead. I was still some years, and responsibilities ,away from being an architect.
Now, they refer to me as an architect. It struck me that I had never planned for a professional life 10 years or 20 years from now. How should my career pan out over the next 10-20 years? As I write this, I wonder how I would answer if someone asked me where I saw myself a decade later.
Do I see myself as a farmer, or as a writer, or doing something else?
Or would I continue what I am doing now, and become a master architect? Who knows!
A commonly-asked question in job interviews those days were always 'Where do you see yourself ten years from now?' I would reply 'As an architect'. That means, I saw myself working as a software architect while in my mid-30s.
Three years ago, when I was in my mid-30s, I had to get used to being officially referred to as the lead. I was still some years, and responsibilities ,away from being an architect.
Now, they refer to me as an architect. It struck me that I had never planned for a professional life 10 years or 20 years from now. How should my career pan out over the next 10-20 years? As I write this, I wonder how I would answer if someone asked me where I saw myself a decade later.
Do I see myself as a farmer, or as a writer, or doing something else?
Or would I continue what I am doing now, and become a master architect? Who knows!
Aired at 7/28/2016 05:13:00 pm
2 Comment(s):
At 8/03/2016 3:35 am,
Ricercar said…
interesting! i always wondered if there were people like you - doubly so. First, because you knew what you wanted. Second, you wanted to write code and build software :p
as you know I trained in IT and even worked in the industry for a while, before I escaped. On the job sometimes I hated it and sometimes I loved it, and as a career - ie: while I was in school, I loved the concepts and theory. But I never loved coding as an activity. Not that I hated it - its like cooking vs eating ;)
At 8/04/2016 6:36 pm,
Hyde said…
There are days when I do not like what I am doing- and in those days I am usually doing the management aspect of software. The thrill of writing some lines of code, watch it stumble to life and become self-assured is sometimes like watching a child grow. :-D
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