Day-to-Day Realities of Developer Jobs

Check out some outside content about what it’s like to be a developer.

Back-End Web Developer

What’s it’s like being a backend developer?
by inwebdev

https://medium.com/@jpoly1219/why-i-decided-to-become-a-web-backend-developer-b9422bbb79c1

CRM Web Developer

https://developers.hubspot.com/blog/a-newbies-perspective-on-becoming-a-crm-developer

https://www.quora.com/Currently-I-have-4-years-of-experience-as-a-software-developer-in-NET-stack-Right-now-I-got-a-new-opportunity-to-work-on-Microsoft-Dynamic-CRM-Should-I-go-for-that-or-not

Database Developer

Should I become a database engineer?
byu/Possible-Butterfly-4 inDatabase

https://www.quora.com/Is-database-developer-still-a-relevant-and-in-demand-job-title-or-is-it-an-outdated-term-with-data-engineer-being-the-new-title

Technical Writer

What's it like being a Technical Writer?
byu/Gold_Impression9245 intechnicalwriting

How I Broke Into Technical Writing—and Why You Should Too

API Developer

https://www.linkedin.com/advice/0/what-skills-do-you-need-become-api-developer-skills-programming

Things to know about if you're exclusively an API developer?
byu/top_of_the_scrote inAskProgramming

Product Manager

Do you really like being a product manager? Why?
byu/monstamaker inProductManagement

https://hbr.org/2017/12/what-it-takes-to-become-a-great-product-manager

Mac Developer

https://www.evanmiller.org/why-i-develop-for-the-mac.html

https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-be-an-Apple-software-engineer

iPhone Developer

What is it really like being a iOS Developer
byu/brockythekidd iniosdev

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-becoming-an-iOS-developer-What-are-your-personal-experiences-with-it-as-an-individual-and-in-general-from-your-point-of-view

Full-Stack Web Developer

https://medium.com/@priyajoshi2437/what-its-like-to-be-a-full-stack-developer-a-day-in-my-life-bb90d5831ad6

https://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/11514/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-full-stack-web-developer

Security Developer

Typical Day of a Security Software Developer

https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-being-a-software-cyber-security-engineer

WordPress Developer

A Day in the Life of a WordPress Developer

https://www.linkedin.com/advice/0/what-does-wordpress-developer-do-skills-web-development-v4n2e

Insights

After reviewing what others have to say about some of these developer roles, I think it’s time to make my first cuts to my running list. Here is where we are at after those cuts:

1. Back-end web developer
2. Database developer
3. Technical writer
4. Mobile (iPhone) developer
5. API developer
6. WordPress developer
7. Desktop (Mac) developer
8. Security developer