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just8littleBit
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My boss keeps pushing me to do „any“ courses..
I’d say I’m doing my job exceptionally well. In fact he even told me before he promoted me.

I had to tell him what I wanna learn in the next 2-3 years. I told him I wanna be decent in C++ because i love the language and in my opinion every dev can improve by learning a low level language.

Have some MITx courses and stuff I wanna do (I actually want to do them) but he keeps pushing me to send him the courses so he can push me and (I think) Monitor my progress..

C/Cpp and asm have always been my love, I wanna improve and learn. But I wanna do it for myself, not for my boss. The company doesn’t have any use for it anyway..

And those courses are 4 weeks to 12 months with scheduled assessments.

I shouldn’t have mentioned it. Now it’s an expectation they have.

Now I have to force myself into doing those courses in time.. on a schedule..?

90% of then will bore the shit out of me cause I already know it and the remaining 10% are stuff I wanna look at when I feel like it. But I don’t have a paper that says I know those 90% so yeah..

Why can’t he just be happy with the work I do during working hours and leave my free time up to me???

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  • 5
    5y
    Please stop saying C/C++ is a low level language. It is a systems level language. Low level is ASM.
  • 1
    5y
    It still lets you access pretty much all of the hardware, doesn’t it?
    Or is „low level“ == hard do read?
  • 1
    5y
    @Demolishun if it makes you happy, I can call it lower level.
  • 4
    5y
    CS/CE is a precise field. Words matter and so does jargon. If you want to effectively communicate ideas you use precise language. This is not a preference but a "this person has no clue" thing. My intent was to save you embarrassment in the future. If you don't believe me, fine, google is your friend.
  • 7
    5y
    A good manager would give you the time during work if it's a requirement for your employment (i.e. growth/professional development).
  • 2
    5y
    @Demolishun we can call it a medium level language
  • 2
    5y
    C++ is high level language with varying abstraction levels on hardware.
  • 1
    5y
    @Demolishun @aviophile
    Ok, I see I was wrong there.
    Don’t know why I never noticed this.

    That sucks, I’ve been using that word for many many years.
  • 0
    5y
    @Kashmir there were times when C was one of the highest level programming language assembly was lowest. I think distance from assembly would be good measure but too much discussion would be pointless.
  • 3
    5y
    @Kashmir
    Yes, low level languages are those which have minimal abstraction from the cpu instruction set. Managed languages are generally considered higher level, but low level does have a specific connotation.
  • 0
    5y
    To me it seems like your boss wants to help you doing the courses you want. He wants to help you build your career. Maybe talk with him more deeply about your feelings, for me this sounds more like he wants to help you. If he invests in you, he might progress it. None the less, it would be worse if he wouldn't want to help you with the courses at all!

    Sorry for the pressure, good luck.
  • 1
    5y
    @SortOfTested How people don't know this is staggering.
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