Tag: stress

Early on in your development career, you probably saw a report at some point showing how much senior developers are paid. While the high pay can be nice, there are aspects of many senior developer jobs that you want to avoid. In short, there are things that are more important to your quality of life and sanity than your pay.

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Burnout is a nasty and insidious process. It can sap your ability to push through challenges and ultimately cause you to fail if not dealt with quickly. It typically occurs when you have been overworked or over stressed for an extended period of time and have reached a breaking point. Burnout doesn’t happen in a day, and can not be recovered from in a day. It’s a plague on the software industry. Unfortunately, most of us aren’t taught how to recover from burnout. We tend to learn it the hard way through experience.

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