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Stop selling yourself as a developer new title to validate
Two years ago, I met with my current employer, a long time freelancer who has been building solutions for clients around the world. Here is exactly what I understood that day and that made me stop selling myself as a developer.
Two years ago, I met with my current employer, a long time freelancer who has been building solutions for clients around the world. He noticed that I was always presenting myself as a developer and made me understand that it is not how I should introduce myself to people, and that things I was able to do didn't just involve developing applications. Here is exactly what I understood that day and that made me stop selling myself as a developer.
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A wise man once said:
Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow.
We are not just developers
The average freelance developer out there nowadays doesn't just write code. He creates entire solutions and deploys them so that their targeted audience can use them. That usually requires a lot of knowledge that is out of the scope of a developer as the majority of people know it. To create a basic app and bring it to its end users now involves having the skills required for the following roles:
Business analyst, to understand the client's needs and translate them into detailed specifications.
Project manager, to plan the development of the app and manage any eventual budget allocated to its development.
Developer, to understand the specifications, build the solution described and test it.
DevOps engineer, to ship the solution to the end users (deployment).
An ordered list of items
Work
Sleep
Repeat
A link to somewhere else.
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