{"id":6139,"date":"2013-09-09T10:30:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleprogrammer.com\/?p=6139"},"modified":"2017-10-02T13:16:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T17:16:24","slug":"dark-side-software-development-one-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simpleprogrammer.com\/dark-side-software-development-one-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Side Of Software Development That No One Talks About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hey, you.<\/em>\\n\\n<em>Yeah, you.\u00a0 Psst.\u00a0 Come over here.<\/em>\\n\\n<em>I\u2019m going to tell you something that you may not have heard before.<\/em>\\n\\n<em>Are you ready for it?<\/em>\\n\\n<em>Software developers are jerks.<\/em>\\n\\nDon\u2019t get me wrong, there are lots of great developers and nice people who are software developers, and there are lots of great supportive environments and thriving communities in software development land, <strong>but there are also lots of jerks.<\/strong>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<h2>You have to learn to grow a thick skin<\/h2>\n<p>\\n\\nYou don\u2019t hear this much, because it isn\u2019t really nice to say.\u00a0 And hey, I\u2019m an eternal optimist, so I\u2019d rather not look at the negative, but ignoring reality doesn\u2019t make it go away.\\n\\n<center>\\n\\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vdrFejp1s_I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\\n\\n<\/center>\\n\\n<strong>The truth is not everyone has your best interests at heart.\u00a0 The truth is that a large number of people would like nothing more than to see you fail; to prove once and for all that they are smarter than you.<\/strong>\\n\\nChances are if you are doing something unique or you propose a new idea, you\u2019ll have more critics than supporters.\u00a0 I don\u2019t say this to be mean or to discourage you\u2014I actually have the opposite intent.\u00a0 Rather, I say it so that you can be prepared and not think it has anything to do with your personally.\u00a0 Hopefully, I can help you grow the kind of thick skin you are going to need if you are going to succeed as a software developer.\\n\\nThere has been a good amount of griping and general banter about women in tech lately.\u00a0 Both sides of this imaginary war have crossed lines and drawn blood.\u00a0 I\u2019ve stayed out of it so far, and I\u2019ll continue to\u2014I\u2019m not taking sides.\u00a0 But, in some ways this whole debate has shown just how nasty people can be in our industry, and over some pretty petty things.\\n\\n<strong>The problem is that most software developers, male or female, aren\u2019t really ready for the nastiness they are about to encounter when they start writing code as a career.<\/strong>\u00a0 Worse yet, much of this nastiness is disguised in a very passive aggressive manner, so targets of this ire aren\u2019t even aware of it\u2014at first.\\n\\nLots of us could definitely stand to read a book like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061284149\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0061284149&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=makithecompsi-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThe Hard Truth About Soft Skills,\u201d<\/a> or one of my favorites that I recommend every chance I get, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0671027034\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0671027034&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=makithecompsi-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Win Friends and Influence People.\u201d<\/a>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<h2>Where does this vileness come from?<\/h2>\n<p>\\n\\nWe work in a sort of strange field where intelligence and ability are highly prized, but some of these same qualities made some of us victims of aggression and abuse earlier in life.\\n\\nThis tends to result in a culture in which many of the participants are constantly trying to prove themselves and evaluating themselves against others.\\n\\n<strong>To put to plainly, it means there are lots of sensitive and bloated egos floating around.<\/strong>\\n\\nIt is sort of a \u201ckick the dog\u201d syndrome where software developers who were kicked earlier in life, or even earlier in their careers, tend to feel justified in kicking the programmers who they see beneath them.\\n\\nThis same kind of mentality also tends to foster cynical thinking and an outright rejection of any idea that doesn\u2019t self-originate.\\n\\nBut, I probably don\u2019t have to tell you this, so much as to remind you of it, because if you\u2019ve been in the industry for any amount of time, you\u2019ve probably felt and experienced this yourself.\u00a0 You may even be a perpetrator of it\u2014we all are from time to time\u2014just some of us more than others.\\n\\n<\/p>\n<h2>What you can do about it<\/h2>\n<p>\\n\\nSo you might be wondering what my purpose is in telling you all this.\u00a0 Am I just complaining for the sake of complaining?\\n\\nNo, definitely not.\u00a0 Like I said, I spend much of my day trying to see the positive.\u00a0 I don\u2019t like to dwell on the negative.\\n\\n<strong>My real purpose is to put this out in the open so that I\u2019ll stop getting emails from tired, beat up developers or want-to-be developers who have been beaten down so hard by their peers that they feel that they are somehow below them.<\/strong>\\n\\nEveryone feels doubt in their abilities and worth from time to time, but you\u2019ve got to learn to recognize where the doubt and fear is coming from.\u00a0 Sometimes, it is a healthy dose of skepticism in our own abilities that keeps us from floating our head way up above the clouds, but many times it is just the reflection of others who are making us feel inferior.<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleprogrammer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/stand-up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Business man\" src=\"https:\/\/simpleprogrammer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/stand-up_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Business man\" width=\"213\" height=\"319\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\\n\\nI\u2019ve sat through countless meetings where good, smart software developers who had good opinions and ideas kept their mouth shut and didn\u2019t say a word.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been to leadership and effective communication classes that told me that the vocal participants in the room were to blame; that they were being too assertive and aggressive and forcing others into the room to become more introverted.\\n\\nBut, you know what?\u00a0 That is hogwash!\\n\\n<strong>Are you going to live your life waiting for someone else to step out of the way, so your quiet voice can be heard?\u00a0 Or are you going to make your own voice louder?<\/strong>\\n\\nYou are much better off realizing that people are jerks and learning how to speak out and deal with criticism than you are believing that you are inferior and not worthy of a seat at the table.\\n\\nDon\u2019t blame your own situation on other people being egotistical loud mouth jerks and accept their bullying and allow them to project the image of how they want to see you onto yourself.\u00a0 Instead, realize that is just the way it is and you have to learn to adapt to this environment.\\n\\nAs much as I\u2019d like it to change, it probably won\u2019t, so at some point you\u2019ve got to start living in reality or find a more peaceful and accepting atmosphere.\\n\\n<\/p>\n<h2>Don\u2019t be part of the problem<\/h2>\n<p>\\n\\nJust because the situation is somewhat bleak, doesn\u2019t mean you have to be part of the problem as well.\\n\\n<strong>I originally started this blog, because I was fed up with all the egos that were trying to make programming seem so much harder than it really is.<\/strong>\u00a0 My whole mission in life for the past few years has been to take things that other people are trying to make seem complex (so that they can appear smarter or superior) and instead make them simple.\\n\\nI charge you with taking up the same quest.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to start a blog dedicated to the cause or wear a Simple Programmer T-Shirt, but you can start helping other software developers and making them feel like they can do it instead of making them feel like they need years of practice to attain your level of skill.\\n\\n<strong>If we want to make a difference in the community, we have to start trying to make things seem simpler rather than harder.<\/strong>\\n\\nThere are plenty of people out there who will gladly challenge a new idea or tell you why you can\u2019t accomplish some goal, but there needs to be more of us\u2014especially those of us who\u2019ve been in the field for awhile\u2014who tell people why they can do it and how easy it really is.\\n\\n<\/p>\n<h2>Real strategy to deal with this problem<\/h2>\n<p>\\n\\nDealing with jerks and negativity is hard.\u00a0 It is really hard.\\n\\nIn my career, I\u2019ve dealt with my fair share of it, and I still deal with it today.\u00a0 In this post, I just highlighted the problem and offered simple suggestions, but I\u2019m actually working on a much bigger project to distill some of these specific software developer career tips into a bigger package.\\n\\nIf you are interested in finding out the moment this product is officially launched, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleprogrammer.com\/email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sign up here<\/a>, and I\u2019ll be sure to let you know.\\n\\n<\/p>\n<h2>How about you?<\/h2>\n<p>\\n\\nDo you run into lots of egos in software development?\u00a0 How do you stay positive and not let them crush your spirit?\\n\\nAlso, if you&#8217;re interested in creating a blog to boost your software development career, do <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleprogrammer.com\/store\/products\/how-to-create-a-blog\/\">take a look at this course I created.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, you.\\n\\nYeah, you.\u00a0 Psst.\u00a0 Come over here.\\n\\nI\u2019m going to tell you something that you may not have heard before.\\n\\nAre you ready for it?\\n\\nSoftware developers are jerks.\\n\\nDon\u2019t get me wrong, there are lots of great developers and nice people who are software developers, and there are lots of great supportive environments and thriving communities in software&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14560,4909],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career","category-psychology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Dark Side Of Software Development That No One Talks About<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Do you know about the dark side of software development? 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