Episode 527: I lost my job after 10 years and am I too old to switch to a security career?
Soft Skills Engineering

Episode 527: I lost my job after 10 years and am I too old to switch to a security career?

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 24, 202637 min

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hello Dave and Jamison! I’m a longtime listener going back to the early days of the podcast, and I’ve listened to every episode since. When I started listening, I was beginning my career as a software engineer. Your advice has truly helped shape how I think about work, engineering, leadership, and all the weird human stuff that comes with building software. Now I’m more than 10 years into my career, and I’ve run into a problem that I suspect many experienced engineer...

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It takes more than yelling, product Chaos Monkey, as you randomly close tickets in your backlog. To be a great software engineer, this is episode 527 of the Soft Skills Engineering podcast, where I'm your host, Jameson Dance.

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I'm your host, Dave Smith. Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly advice show about all of the non-technical things that go into the technical field of software development, like introducing the project management team to the benefits of resilience.

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Is your backlog resilient to random ticket deletion? Yeah. Do you have like error correction codes and other tickets so you can recover the missing ones?

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