Career Guide to Industries, 2010-11 Edition: US Department of Labor

The report 'Career Guide to Industries, 2010-11 Edition: US Department of Labor'is quite encouraging from Software Engineering career perspective. It provides a good overview of Software Engineering career, from a common man's standpoint. It also provides an idea about what it takes to get into, specialize and to have a great career in Software Engineering. Particularly encouraging is the part that it will among '5 industries with the largest job growth'and that wage-and-salary is expected to grow 'about 4 times as fast as the 11 percent growth projected for all industries combined'.

Balanced learning in Software Engineering Career

For most of the roles in Software Engineering, it is important to have domain knowledge apart from technical knowledge to be truly successful. For instance, programmer working in a software project for banking industry is expected to be familiar with terminologies used by banking industry. These terminologies are used in daily discussion just as much as technical jargons.

How do we balance learning? All software projects are not the same. It depends on what are the kinds of projects that you are working on and what you expect to work in future.