I'm not sure if this is a situation you've been in before in career, but do you have any advice for someone preparing to make a large pivot in their technical career? I've spent ten years on the testing and automation side of the business and really want to move forward with more technical challenges as an application/lib developer. It scares the daylights out of me. I know I have the technical chops, but I have the fear of having my resume tossed because my development efforts haven't been "traditional" development. I'm also a few weeks away from becoming a first time father, so my nerves have started to become a wreck. It's easy to say "now isn't the right time" for a lot of reasons, but I get the feeling there never is a right time. Is it best to just embrace the fear and dive right in?
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I'm not sure if this is a situation you've been in before in career, but do you have any advice for someone preparing to make a large pivot in their technical career? I've spent ten years on the testing and automation side of the business and really want to move forward with more technical challenges as an application/lib developer. It scares the daylights out of me. I know I have the technical chops, but I have the fear of having my resume tossed because my development efforts haven't been "traditional" development. I'm also a few weeks away from becoming a first time father, so my nerves have started to become a wreck. It's easy to say "now isn't the right time" for a lot of reasons, but I get the feeling there never is a right time. Is it best to just embrace the fear and dive right in?