In this episode the Hallway Conversations team sits down with Gus Emery to explore how you as a developer can take control of your own career. Â Gus shares with us both the necessary mindset as well as offering specific actions you can take to ensure that its you (and not your employer!) that is in the driver’s seat of your professional career.
We discusses the challenges developers face when trying to formulate a long-term career strategy against the backdrop of ever-changing technology and explore in detail the pros and cons of choosing between being a jack-of-all-trades vs. a deep specialist in a single technology (and what that choice might mean for the future of your career).
If you often feel that you’re not in control of your own career path, this is the episode for you!
Gus Emery is a Principal with Kosmik Koding, a Microsoft Partner in Minnesota. Gus also is a Co-Host of !CodeCast a biweekly development PodCast striving to distribute development knowledge to the masses. Gus has spent the last 20 years architecting and implementing highly-scalable ASP.Net applications and distributed n-tiered applications across a broad array of industries in the Twin Cities. Gus has been working with Visual Basic since v3.0 and C# .Net since inception, and loves to seek out new and exciting technologies that facilitate productivity improvements and serve his customers’ technological needs!