Day 252 of writing every day.
I started my new job today and until I get an assignment, I’ll be on standby at reduced pay. Unlike my last job, however, there’s none of the micromanaging elements present while on standby and it’s free time to study and explore things that interests me. Of course, it’s gotta be relevant to the work of engineers such as learning to program in a language or exploring designs.
It’s strange how I found myself to be a lot more focused at the moment knowing that I’m on the clock basically and there are people that have expectations for me in terms of output. That’s the only thing that has changed compared to last week since I’m still at home with the same table and doing things on my own personal laptop.
The SES industry in Japan is a product of the differences in tech culture vs. countries such as the US. Things aren’t done in-house as much and often businesses rely on vendors to do the work for them whether it be setting up servers or designing websites. Contracts can be long-term or limited by project as far as I know.
There’s also a tiered system basically where the professional programmers who can write out entire programs and applications work as “system integraters” while those less skilled basically find work as hands for hire at SES companies that dispatch them to projects in need of people to do the coding work and more manually intensive parts of work in the tech industry.
I don’t know what language or type of work I’ll end up doing since tech jobs are wide and varied. I could end up finding server side work rather than web development or application development. I might even end up finding work that requires no coding but rather being able to use code free tools capable of designing custom applications for businesses based on their needs.
The need to code from scratch for many languages seems to be unnecessary and more people are relying on tools and libraries that have everything already written out. It might be more a matter of learning how to access the right tools you need rather than building the tools.
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