Is the stress of software maintenance worth the money you'd earn?
Like, you might earn lots for maintaining software which would include annoying costumers though.
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SW-User
From 1981 to 2018 I worked in IT.
Early career was in sw dev and support.
I loved creating new solutions. But also tracking and fixing issues. One job I had in in the mid 80s involved dealing room systems..
There was a notorious bug where a line of information disappeared. No one could trace it. It was given to me. I spent all afternoon just trying to recreate it. About 4pm I got it. So started to figure out why. By 6pm I could recreate it repeatedly. By 8pm I found the actual problem, it was in C it was a quirk of pointers and an array I think. By midnight I had a fix but that caused another issue. About 4am I had it done all included and sufficient test cases executed. I slept in the conference room for a few hours.
When everyone arrived in the office at 9am I showed them. We sent the patch to customers that afternoon and I got a small bonus in my pay packet.
A small career highlight.
Early career was in sw dev and support.
I loved creating new solutions. But also tracking and fixing issues. One job I had in in the mid 80s involved dealing room systems..
There was a notorious bug where a line of information disappeared. No one could trace it. It was given to me. I spent all afternoon just trying to recreate it. About 4pm I got it. So started to figure out why. By 6pm I could recreate it repeatedly. By 8pm I found the actual problem, it was in C it was a quirk of pointers and an array I think. By midnight I had a fix but that caused another issue. About 4am I had it done all included and sufficient test cases executed. I slept in the conference room for a few hours.
When everyone arrived in the office at 9am I showed them. We sent the patch to customers that afternoon and I got a small bonus in my pay packet.
A small career highlight.