Ask HN: How do I become a proactive coder at work?
I feel too reactive with my work. Either waiting for people on what they want changed or handling unexpected bugs. When I’m not waiting on anyone or I understand the issue, I can work a lot and get into a flow state pretty easily. This is when I’m the happiest at work.
I’ve been at my current gig for 9 months and they have many applications, some 20 years old. Their corporate IT hierarchy seems too big for the company. The CIO has 6 people under them, and each one of those people have 10-30 people under them. My boss is one of the 6.
I want to innovate and help the company be profitable. I want to be helpful. I don’t know what steps to take to become more proactive. My feeling is I need to do a lot of reading of whatever documentation there is and create new documentation if what currently exists is lacking.
I’ve been at my current gig for 9 months and they have many applications, some 20 years old. Their corporate IT hierarchy seems too big for the company. The CIO has 6 people under them, and each one of those people have 10-30 people under them. My boss is one of the 6.
I want to innovate and help the company be profitable. I want to be helpful. I don’t know what steps to take to become more proactive. My feeling is I need to do a lot of reading of whatever documentation there is and create new documentation if what currently exists is lacking.