A new grad in 2022. I started to work for a government company. No tech, no growth. But, life is pretty chill. Salary is just ok in Canada. But, when I compare with my friends who are in big tech companies, I start to feel down. I can learn nothing in this position, but I might need to work here for two years due to my visa reason. So, I know I need to learn something by myself and practice leetcode again and again. But, I still cannot feel good in my life. People said I'm good enough because of the stability here. Also, both of being too busy and too relaxed are harmful to people's mental health. I'm the latter one.
#How to avoid feeling down when working as a developer for a government type company?
steel badger
latent crystal
Contribute to FOSS/have personal projects, learn git backwards, learn sql backwards, learn bash backwards, learn lc backwards, build your skills to a shiny sheen. Most low expectations jobs simply have down time, jam some work in between.
Everyone feels this, don't sweat about it.
It's just hard when you're inexperienced to acknowledge those feelings, without feeling like you're "doing it wrong."
copper zephyr
Contribute to FOSS/have personal projects, learn git backwards, learn sql backwa...
What do you mean by learning something backwards?
latent crystal
Learning it well. Figure of speech.
steel badger
I appreciate your words.
Another thing I feel pretty uncomfortable is I don’t have much to do in these months. I talked with manager and she just told me she will have some for me to do, which means now I don’t have much on the plate unfortunately. But, I have to take the scrum meetings every day. I need to pretend to be busy and I know other developers know that I’m idle. What a stupid and awful time I have every day. Just hard to get thru it when I don’t have much to do. Those devs seem not busy as well. I ask some devs for work, but they just said you should ask manager and do what you need to do. They don’t like me maybe. Kinda sad.
violet warren
i wouldnt jump to “they dont like me”. Almost always not the case unless youre a generally unpleasant person to work with. From my experience and knowledge from the grapevine about working for the government is that there generally isnt a lot to do because things take a long time to make it through the proper channels and chains. I know somebody who works in gov as as a SDE and they always are talking about even to make the smallest changes, you have to jump through hoops and bark ans clap at the same time and what not. So I doubt that its because they dont like you, there probably just genuinely isnt much to do at the moment. Could be a good time to take on some side projects or volunteer or something.