5 Reasons Why I Don't Reveal I'm a High School Developer

This is a short piece based on personal experience. Logical completeness or generalization has been ignored. Please share your thoughts and experiences in the comments. Criticism is also welcome.

1. To escape the safety net of being a high school student and receive harsh feedback from developers in the field.

When you reveal that you’re a student, harsh expressions often disappear. However, I believe that only with harsh feedback can one truly grow as a developer. Among the articles I’ve written, there’s one titled “We Should Stop Using React.” It’s quite an aggressive title, and the content is somewhat hastily put together. You can see from the comments that the atmosphere isn’t good. But what if I had prefaced it by saying it was written by a high school student?

2. To compete solely with writing skills and insight, without the dazzling view counts that come with being a “student developer.”

I’ve used this a few times myself. Similarly, the view counts were good, but that was it. Further growth and honor are achieved only when you focus on the essence of being an engineer, not settling as a student developer.

3. To avoid instilling envy and jealousy in others.

Envy and jealousy are emotions that create formidable enemies. Since everyone has experienced being a high school student, it can unconsciously instill defeatism and hostility in others. This is especially true for people of the same age group.

4. To instill trust in the product and the maker.

The incompleteness associated with the title of high school student can be detrimental to products or professional columns that require trust. For example, in a Q&A, if the questioner is a college student and the responder is a high school student, the content might not be blindly trusted. After all, both are students learning.

5. Because I believe age is not such an important factor in living life.

If I am satisfied with my status as a high school student now, there will be many days of relative dissatisfaction in the future. I can’t always rely on the glory of the past.

And the reason for writing this post is because I’m about to graduate.

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