Ask HN: Are you advancing in your career as planned?

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I was browsing through my HN historical submissions and found the following one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7314582. Surprised to know that I'm with the same doubt nowadays and now I'm wondering if I really advanced or just kept repeating the same patterns. Check yours :).

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I put less value on "advancing" as I do enjoying what I do.

Two years ago I quit a ~20 year career in networking and frankly I was kinda tired of the industry I was in.

I decided to do a coding bootcamp (I had always been interested in coding). Loved it (found I was a far better student at 40 than 20), and got my first job for less than half what I used to earn.

My pay has risen dramatically and while I don't make what I used to and I'm not as "advanced" in my career as I was... I'm far happier.

A lot of folks seem to see "advancement" as what makes them happy in their job, I worry for them that such things are fleeting and hollow.

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