“The Long Road”

In the third chapter “Walking the Long Road”, Dave have a bunch of certificates from his education. Then he starts connect to broader developer, he discover that he had barely scratched the surface of what it meant to be a great software developer. He inspired by the power of these hackers’ abilities. He threw himself into side projects and began to read anything he could get his hands on. The more Dave learned, the more he recognized how far he had to go. This is what I image I will be going though once I get into the work force. I am looking for the motivation to learn and see great things.

Speaking of work force, this is what everyone facing once they are doing job for money. We aspire to become a master software craftsman, yet your aspiration conflicts with what people expect from you. Conventional wisdom tells you to take the highest-paying job and the first promotion you can get your hands on, to stop programming and get onto more important work rather than slowly building up your skills. Everyone have their own road, that why we can not follow the successes step by step. I do believe the shorter road you take, the sooner it will be end road. I am agreeing with imagine my own long-term road. What step we are going to take, what experiences we want to try. We don’t want in the future to look back and wish we could take different road. This is always conflict between job and money, they are connected but also affect each other negatively. We are doing what we love but we also want to be successful. On our road of career, sometimes money and promotion could get you turn to different road. Maybe the road that you weren’t to take, this is difficult decision we will face at some point. I agreed with the chapter, no matter which road are we will take. Make sure that’s the road for long term and keep doing what we love.