# Programming as a career [[Programming]] This note is a node for everything related to programming as a career, and peripherally to [[Programming as a career]]. See also [[Staff Engineer]] and [[Career Advice]]. ## Alternative paths There are good resources about different concepts of a developer career: - [Ask HN: How to be independent as a developer? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32342058) - [Becoming a Full-Time Creator as a Software Engineer: Controversial Advice - The Pragmatic Engineer](https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/how-to-become-a-full-time-creator/) ## Links - [Laurence Tratt: Alternative Sources of Advice](https://tratt.net/laurie/essays/entries/alternative_sources_of_advice.html) ## Logs [[2022-08-03]] - Added the section "Alternative paths" to write down links about being independent as a developer, and other more oblique career paths.