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Getting Started in Tech: 8 Mistakes I Made

Emmanuel Osuolale on July 14, 2022

At the beginning of my tech career, I made a few mistakes that cost me countless hours and months. I wanted to share some mistakes I made when I st...
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Emmanuel Osuolale • Edited

Thank you for sharing Lukasz. I totally agree with what you said. Very good advice.

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Angeline Wang

This was a great read! Thanks for sharing :)

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Benny

This are helpful tips Emma

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Emmanuel Osuolale

Thank you Benny

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Yusuf

Great advice, thanks.

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Gerald Nchogu Okioma

Nice article,simple and straight to the point. I have made most of this mistakes in the past.

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SeongKuk Han

I agree with you but at the same time the thought comes in my mind, "Do I have enough skills for frontend? Is it okay to spend time to other skills?". I believe that each skill is connected each other. But for my career, I'm worried about that. There are lots of things that I should learn in frontend, actually, new packages are coming out every day, right?. I wanna leave from the thought, but it's not that easy

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Alexander B.K.

"5. I thought some roles were too big for me.
I was looking at job descriptions, and if there was a skill I was not good with, I would just leave the role and not apply. But then, I realized that most job descriptions are written by individuals who do not have a very good idea about the role and probably just did a quick google search on what skills a data scientist should have."

This point... if only one requirement I lack, I usually don't care, go on to apply.

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Yongchang He

They are really helpful to me. Thank you!

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Opeyemi Stephen

This is a great read and will be helpful to every noob dev. Great article Emmanuel.

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SeongKuk Han

All of them are that I also did, oh,, and I totally agree with your opinions. Thank you for the post! I will try with your advices!

 
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SeongKuk Han

Thank you for your advice :)

I think that one of the most important skills is to learn how to read documentation

I feel the same way

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Fongoh Martin T.

Awesome