For my career, I want to be a software developer, but I am unsure about what to do right now. I graduated about a year ago, and currently reside in Toronto, Ontario, working for a tech company. I was originally hired to be a developer, but due to circumstances, I was pulled to do some devops work. It was supposed to be a short-term thing, for about 3 months. Fast-forward 8 months, and I am still stuck where I am. There were a lot of internal complications that kept me from moving, and I feel a bit cheated over false promises. I have seen new hires who join the company, start off helping with us in devops and then being moved off to do actual software development. I have brought the subject of being placed to development a few times, but my "transfer" always got delayed. I wouldn't really consider my job to be devops any more, with the way things are. I haven't touched the automation frameworks, and any programming languages for the past month or so. Supposedly, I am the point where I have to do one last thing before I can finally be transferred.
I am unsure about what to do right now. Currently I am looking for a new job, as I keep going right now. On many occasions, I have thought about quitting, due to the constant frustrations, and disappointment. Heck, I have even considered maybe staying because other companies might just be worse, or the job market might not be as great.
I was wondering if others have gone through a similar experience, or have some insight they would like to share. For advices I've heard, I'm told the following:
- grit your teeth and bear it, it's almost over
- don't leave your job for something with less pay, you got it good with your pay (I make more than the national average)
- no place is perfect, every where is like this
- don't quit at all, just hang in there (I would normally agree to this, but I haven't done anything relevant to my career goal recently)
I am unsure about what to do right now. Currently I am looking for a new job, as I keep going right now. On many occasions, I have thought about quitting, due to the constant frustrations, and disappointment. Heck, I have even considered maybe staying because other companies might just be worse, or the job market might not be as great.
I was wondering if others have gone through a similar experience, or have some insight they would like to share. For advices I've heard, I'm told the following:
- grit your teeth and bear it, it's almost over
- don't leave your job for something with less pay, you got it good with your pay (I make more than the national average)
- no place is perfect, every where is like this
- don't quit at all, just hang in there (I would normally agree to this, but I haven't done anything relevant to my career goal recently)