Once upon a time, software engineers were a rare breed. There are dozen of millions of sw engineers now.
Once upon a time, you had to compete only with local software engineers. You are competing with people in Kuala Lumpur and Tunis now.
Once upon a time, you had to learn two programming language on one operation system and you was set for life. New languages, frameworks and tools pop up each year now.
Once upon a time, the information was a secret passed from masters to apprentices. A 12 year kid has access to the same info which has veteran engineer with 20 years of experience now.
You can be smart, but there will be millions smarter than you. You can be experienced, but there will be millions who are more experienced than you. You can work hard, but there will be millions who will worked harder than you.
So, what are you going to do?
