You Are Not Your Job

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Note: This post is a copy of You Are Not Your Job by Jacob Young. I really liked the post, and it made me stop and think about who I am not just what I do for work. Everything below is his writing, republished here with appreciation.

Saying “I am a software engineer” is beginning to feel like saying “I am a calculator” in 1950 now that digital machines can use electrical circuits to count, add, multiply — it’s not long until they’ll be able differentiate a non-continuous function… You’re beginning to feel less-than-useful.

Reflections of a Junior Engineer, Lessons Learned in Year One

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:22:00 +0100

Today it has been a year since I started my fulltime job as a DevOps Engineer. After studying four years for my bachelor’s degree in software engineering and traveling around SEA for five months I returned the 22nd of February to my old internship. The only difference now was that I was not an intern anymore, but a full-time employee.

I have always believed that it is a good thing to look back in the past at your own actions and think about certain moments or conversations when you learned something from somebody else or when important decisions were made. That is why I am writing this blogpost where I will look back at some of the things I have done and learned over the last year and what will be up for me the upcoming year.

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You Are Not Your Job

Reflections of a Junior Engineer, Lessons Learned in Year One