Be a Software Engineer not Software Employee

you might be working in software industry for quite few years and you hate your software job or you may have planned to start your career in software industry.

Either way, this blog will help you to know how you can make your software engineering job interesting. And for career beginners you can come to know how to choose your company and how to have a good perspective towards software industry.

OK, I can hear your inner-voice asking “what is difference between an engineer and an employee.”

let me explain you,

An Employee is someone who just gets the order from his higher official and works according to the order to completes his/her tasks assigned.

yes, a software employee is someone who blindly listens to their higher officials and doesn’t even think about what they are doing and implement a work that is solved by some other.

An Engineer is someone who finds a new problem and solves it.

This doesn’t mean he disobeys the order or work given by his higher official. he sees the tasks or problem given to him in different perspective and comes up with a good/better solution.

Characteristics of a Software Employee and Software Engineer

So do you want to be someone who just goes for a corporate job, working from 9 to 6 taking weekly off and be pride by saying “I am working in so and so company” or someone with great Self Esteem and being proud of the work you do and problem you solve.

If you are someone in Talent Acquisition team, don’t hire someone just by their degree, certificates, experience. See their attitude towards solving a problem and come-up with alternative, better solutions and meets the characteristics of Software Engineer.

“How you do anything is how you do everything”

If you feel that you cannot think beyond the work given to you, then you are in a wrong direction/wrong place. If you are truly passionate about something ideas, solutions would flow to you abundantly and don’t settle until you find that one thing in your life. I would like to finish this blog with this wonderful quote.