RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116170661640263540
Purely by necessity I started my career working 24/7 tech support for a few years.
It didn't seem that way at the time but it's hard to overstate how formative that experience has become.
@deech I spent the first several years of my programming career writing and maintaining the software that I and my teammates used every day in our daily business (which was not technology). My first programming job started as a data entry job for a small company. Because of this, I have always tried to build software that helps people leave work on time. I also tend to stay at any given job for several years, so if my code was badly written, I suffer for it. This has taught me to be wary of shortcuts.
@coderCyclist internal-use software development sounds like a great opportunity to be motivated/rewarded for doing it well. It usually goes unutilized, usually by a department dedicated to it which instead just "buys IBM" so to speak.
