I always believed that the remote-work gives you great flexibility to work with whatever company you want and be wherever you want. One day you are in the office of a busy downtown. Then you decide to spend time in a quiet cottage with a view of a beautiful lake. And the other day, you take off giant waves somewhere in Bali or Australia for a few months. Isn't it amazing? But is it actually that easy to have this lifestyle?
I started wondering who is a Junior, Middle, or Senior Software Developer and what boundaries distinguish them before even writing my first line of code. Moreover, who is the mysterious blacksmith that decides which skill level stamp to put on you and how to make it "S" (Senior) as fast as possible? And I grateful I had this question in my mind before doing any career steps. Curious why?
A chair - I believe you have at least one at home. There are dozens of chair designs, and some of them will make you unsure if it is actually one. But once you know that this is a chair, regardless of whether you have had any experience with this particular chair, you know what to do with it. You will be looking for a way to sit on it. Because you know that the main purpose or "why" of the chair is to hold your butt so you can work or enjoy your time. Why should not it be the same with technologies in Software Development?
Have you ever used a revolving door? The door rotates around a vertical axis within a cylindrical enclosure and usually is at the entrance to modern office buildings. Imagine that this door was rotating automatically during the day with different frequencies. Sometimes it is slow enough that people can enter, sometimes faster and only the bravest trying to enter. And sometimes it spins really fast that even the bravest step back. Did you know that our brain behaves the same way as this door with the difference that the people are the knowledge we trying to acquire during learning?
What do you think will happen if a fish is taken from their natural environment: water, and put to the land? Well, without millions of years of evolution my prediction is not optimistic regarding the ability of the fish to survive. What would happen if a person whose environment always included different people, in-person communication, and in-person collaboration would enter an environment where they work alone in front of the laptop screen like it is in remote work?
