TL; DR:

• Fulfillment changes as your life changes
• Career decisions are rarely permanent
• Meaningful impact is personal
• Join me for the live stream (or watch the recording) on Monday, September 14 at 7:00 PM Pacific!

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Is Anyone Actually Fulfilled With A Software Engineering Career?

A developer asked a question that sounds simple but gets complicated very quickly: Is anyone actually fulfilled by a career in software engineering?

This was not really another conversation about AI taking jobs or changing how we write code. It was a much broader question about whether the career itself gives people what they hoped it would.

I have been thinking about this recently because I had an intern on my team, and we talked through some of the choices that show up early in a career. Do you go directly into the workforce? Do you continue school? What kinds of roles or industries might fit? Those decisions can feel enormous when you are making them.