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Is being a developer truly the most flexible job you can have in IT? Currently working in digital transformation (fedia.io)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Treedrake@fedia.io to c/cs_career_questions@programming.dev

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I have a degree in information systems which was a mix between business and IT. While I in my initial job search was really close on heading in the direction of becoming a developer, I instead landed a role as a business systems analyst as well as working with digital transformation. So basically I'm in the land between IT and the business. I do some super light programming for the platform I'm responsible for but I feel like it's the kind of stuff you could learn in a day. I know some basic Java, Python and C# but not really enough that I'd see me landing a job that isn't a trainee developer position or a job for newly-grads where the company doesn't expect you to know anything at first.

While I don't mind the social and more business-oriented aspects of the job, I'm kinda lamenting the fact that I didn't enter into some trainee/junior dev job to sharpen up my programming skills and become a fully-fledged developer. I'd love to work fully remote and to be more flexible, e.g., not as bound to meetings and stuff which I currently am, or become a freelancer. Has anyone made a similar transition from digital transformation/adjacent areas to becoming a developer? Or am I just thinking too narrowly on what my options in this field are? Maybe there are many opportunities for fully-remote work in digital transformation, business system analysis and what not that I'm not seeing...?

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've been in software engineering (as a QA tester) and IT at different places. I don't understand what transformation means, unless you're scanning documents to digitize them or recording tape or similar. Perhaps you could elaborate.

I worked at an IT job that became fully remote after the pan. And I work an IT job now that's hybrid. A friend is still at the place where I was on QA and they're hybrid after the pan (for everyone and it's a major tech company). I think it's less about the role than the company for these types of jobs.

[–] Treedrake@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago

Quoting Wikipedia here, "Digital transformation (DT) is the process of adoption and implementation of digital technology[1][2][3] by an organization in order to create new or modify existing products, services and operations by the means of translating business processes into a digital format. ". It's about digitalization pretty much.