u/Beneficial-Gain373

Currently earning 25k net as a remote full stack web dev, boss and coworkers are nice, work-life balance is great since it’s output based.

This is my first job and I’ve been working here for less than a year, but I want to leave already because I’m not learning anything and it’s not challenging. Team lead is incompetent. He doesn’t have standards, basta gumana, di man lang iniisip scalability, so nakakairita lagi pag nakakakita akong PR with spaghetti code na iaapprove niya. Just recently we had redo a feature kase inapprove nya yung PR kahit mali yung code, which he only realized after I pointed it out weeks later. As a somewhat perfectionist, I would try to optimize other people’s code since shared naman responsibilities namin, but at the same time I don’t want to overstep and micromanage lalo nat di naman ako team lead.

I want to learn and work with competent people, and I definitely can’t get that working for this company. The team lead knows just as much, if not less, than I do.

Context:

Mom works in BSP and hoping to get me in the same government agency. She wants me to take a Master’s degree agad after I graduate this year, since required siya for promotion for government workers. She wants me to do it early while I still have the energy and time to do so, kase nahirapan siyang isabay sa work when she was taking hers.

I am currently employed, online and output-based sya so it’s really the perfect job to have while taking Master’s. If I continue with her plan, I’m looking into doing full-time 1 year Master’s degree. By the time I complete it, 2 years na akong nagwowork for the same company, which is the perfect time to switch jobs anyway.

While I understand her sentiments and the pros of it, I am hesitant due to the disadvantage it will bring as well:
- Experience matters more, it will do nothing for my early career.
- A job offer in BSP is not guaranteed, even if I have my mom as my backer
- Since I’m in the tech field, Master’s degree has little to no value sa private (kahit senior roles). I’m sure they’d value my experience more.
- Personally, I think its better to upskill with certificates and licenses instead (AWS, Azure, CompTIA, etc.)

What are your thoughts?

Edit: added more sa disadvantages