guidance counselor 2.0 w/milecia mcgregor - career paths outside of software
guest: milecia mcgregor, software developer and consultant
- if you hit the three to five year mark and still like coding but want change, shadow other roles like devops or product before jumping ship
- product managers talk to stakeholders, find pain points, and translate them into user stories for engineers to build
- if you are burnt out on being told your code is broken, qa or sdet roles let you test and automate instead of just writing new features
- when starting freelance consulting, take on small clients for a few hours a week and slowly grow your workload before going full time
- price freelance work by taking your desired yearly salary and dividing it by 2080 to get an hourly rate