Ask HN: Couldn't become Senior in 10 years, what is next?
I have around 10 years of experience in software development. But I still miss critical points a lot. Because of my silly mistakes in the past, I am afraid of making decision independently and asking for help most of the time.<p>I still need assistance on bigger things which I am doing. (just for comparison) I can create something like Apache Kafka storage engine in 2-3 days (of course I am not demanding it would be 100% production ready). I work really hard, I do work outside of work hours, when my peers are enjoying their life in cinema or restaurants.<p>But I still couldn&#x27;t become a Senior which I really admire. I have a &quot;Senior&quot; title in my job title already for 3-4 years, but it doesn&#x27;t feel like I am one, I am not satisfied, it feels like people misuse this Senior title.<p>Help me to fight my depression<p>UPD 1: when mentioned Kafka, I wanted to say that, I can do the work if I things are clear, in case of Kafka I know how their storage engine works, I can replicate it. But if it was just a task, to create message queue, probably I would fail to come up with Kafka solution and their trade-offs