The harsh realities of being a Software Engineer 🤷

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This photo post discusses the harsh realities of being a software engineer, including long work hours and disrupted sleep schedules due to on-call duties. Despite these challenges, the creator concludes that the positives of the profession significantly outweigh the negatives.

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1Introduction to the harsh realities of software engineering
2Discussing long work hours due to deadlines
3Explaining how on-call shifts disrupt sleep
4Concluding that the positives outweigh the negatives

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The harsh realities of being a Software Engineer 🤷 Working 60+ hour weeks is not uncommon This typically happens when there's a project deadline and something needs to get shipped asap. This can also happen if your blocked on a task and you need to unblock it. A bad oncall shift can wreck your sleep schedule Getting paged in the middle of the night could end up being a 2-4 hr session trying to fix customer issues, before you know it, its morning and time to get ready for work Overall the positives of being a software engineer greatly outweigh the negatives.

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Overall I’d still choose to be a software engineer. Because the pros of being a software engineer greatly outweigh the cons. #softwareengineer #blackintech