JuniorLearnsToCode

This is another blog post inspired by  Bloggers Club June 2021 - if you are a tester (or interested in testing) be sure to check out the Ministry of Testing, it's wonderful community of smart and helpful people and their forum (called the Club) is great place to get help, get inspired and to discus stuff to stimulate those little grey cells. This month's topic idea appealed to me straight away. I try not to have regrets, per say, but there I decisions from the past that, from today's perspective, I would have made differently. If I could, pretty much only thing I would have done differently is that I would have left support sooner (I worked in tech support for about two and a half years) and gotten into testing sooner. I spent a lot of time trying to find myself, I was learning WordPress and doing freelance consulting, learning Angular, React, PHP, Java, .NET/C# and other development technologies, mostly (but not exclusively) front-end oriented. I recently  blogged about ...

Various types of work attract different kinds of people, some of us like a dynamic work atmosphere, while others function best if things are more predictable and stable. Working for a big enterprise client is a lot different compared to dealing with clients directly while freelancing or working for a SaaS (Software as a service) in which case the company is it's own "client". I've worked in all three mentioned scenarios - currently, I'm working on a big enterprise project, in the past I've worked for several years for a company that was selling its own product and done some freelancing for a couple of years, as well. Bellow I will strive to list the advantages and disadvantages of all three types of jobs, in hope that this may prove useful for people looking for their first IT job. With memes, as always. So let's get started! Working for a SaaS Company Working for a SaaS, Software as a Service company, you usually won't have any interaction wit...