The Rational Software Engineer

This book will serve as a framework for you as a software engineer seeking a fulfilling career and wishing to stay passionate and maintain a healthy mental state. It is filled with protocols to achieve effective life-long learning, navigate career development, adapt to changes, maintain work-life balance, and have a healthy lifestyle.

As a successful software engineer you tend to focus on improving your technical skills: learning a new programming language, mastering another tool, or using a library. But you also need to build a solid mental framework that will help you navigate your professional development. You need to develop the skills that will help you be a happy software engineer.

This book will help you if you feel frustrated, unmotivated, or unhappy; lost in your career path; or uncertain if you want to be a software engineer. It can help you deal with burnout, high levels of stress, or depression; or if you struggle to be productive while working from home.

What You Will Learn

• Efficiently organize your work day
• Know when and how to seek a new project, company, or career
• Take care of your body and mind in a software engineering context
• Understand what contributes to job satisfaction and how to integrate it into your career
• Use non-coding activities for your and your company's benefit
• Build healthy relationships with managers and colleagues