Timeline for Asked to work on project that nobody wants to work on [closed]
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| Oct 21, 2016 at 18:34 | comment | added | jamesqf | Two suggestions. 1) Try to find a job where you'll get paid for doing what you want to do, and only what you want to do. (Good luck with that one :-)) 2) Bite the bullet, do a really good job at the stuff you don't want to do (but for which you are collecting a paycheck, no?), and use the results to show the manager how good a developer you are. | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 9:20 | history | closed |
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| S Oct 21, 2016 at 8:36 | history | suggested | MopMop | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 21, 2016 at 8:35 | comment | added | Erik | If it's a microservice, how long is this going to take really? Especially since I'm assuming this is an upgrade to a microservice, because if it were a new one, why pick technology nobody wants to use? | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 7:23 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Oct 21, 2016 at 7:03 | answer | added | Walfrat | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 21:59 | comment | added | Myles | Somebody is left holding this bag. Make a case to management as to why a specific esteemed colleague is a more appropriate choice than you. | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 21:43 | comment | added | user1860447 | I have worked on old technologies. But this is a great green house project with latest technologies and a project like this does not come around often. And my thing why not share the pain ? Let everybody do some portion of it. | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 21:38 | comment | added | Peter M | There is nothing wrong in working on old technology per se. It represents a different challenge to working on the latest stuff. However remember that in 5 years time your bleeding edge stuff will be that next 'old technology', and that software spends most all of its time in maintenance rather than in development. So if you want to work in IT you will have to come to terms with working with old code at some point. | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 21:24 | comment | added | user1860447 | He said I can also lead the project. But did not say I will be the team lead. I want to work of cool new technologies rather than old ones irrespective of title. I would like to be an architect though. | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 21:15 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 20, 2016 at 21:08 | comment | added | John Feltz | What are your career goals? Do you want to be a team leader in general, or an architect? Do you want to only work on the cool, new, sexy stuff, regardless of title/seniority? | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 20:54 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 20, 2016 at 20:54 | history | asked | user1860447 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |