Why am I pursuing a career in software engineering?
12 Sep 2019
Interests in software engineering
My main interest in software engineering is pursuing a career related in the fields of robotics. This was mainly due to being a part of my high school’s robotics team which helped me realized that I enjoyed programming. It was because I was tasked with programming the robot together with a few of my teammates. I found out just how much I enjoyed solving the little problems that came up as I was coding as well as how certain features would be implemented in a way that it would be efficient. In addition to enjoying the programming aspect, I also really loved seeing something being built from scratch. Once I saw the robot finished, it felt very accomplishing because its a physical proof of how hard you worked together as a team.
Although my experiences in high school was a major reason why I want to pursue a career in software engineering, I had always taken an interest, or rather been very curious, as to how games were developed. I had always wanted to create my own video game because growing up, I had played a lot of video games. I wanted to create my own that no one had seen and also to satisfy my own need to play something that I would like. Furthermore, I felt like if I made my own video game, then I could create one that would be playable together with my friends and we could make it our own thing that we build and improve piece by piece as we play.
Future?
In the future, I want to develop skills that would help me pursue a career in one of my interests, or any other interests that I find later in life. For example, I would wish to develop the skills on using game engines such as Unity or Unreal Engine. I feel like to obtain these necessary skills, I would have to either get them by experience by working in a related field as an Intern or teaching them to myself. Teaching them fully to myself is somewhat of a slow process because I have other priorites that I have to worry about also, which means that getting them by experience would be more helpful to me. This also solves two problems at once because if I would be developing the skills that I want while working in a field related to my interests.