I spent a little over a year in my first dev job. I fell into a position I wasn't prepared for and never really figured out how to ask for help.
The team experienced significant turnover, and the management wasn't able to provide the mentorship I desperately needed.
Despite having the support of one of the most understanding senior developers to ever live, I became anxious and introverted and let my fear of not being good enough ruin what could have been a great first year of my career.
It wasn't until after I was able to create some distance between myself and that experience that I realized what I was feeling was normal and that there are ways to overcome with it.
Ultimately, that's why I'm reaching out to industry veterans now. I'm hoping to destigmatize the ubiquitous feeling of inadequacy among juniors and catalog a set of methodologies for progressing in a software development career.
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I spent a little over a year in my first dev job. I fell into a position I wasn't prepared for and never really figured out how to ask for help.
The team experienced significant turnover, and the management wasn't able to provide the mentorship I desperately needed.
Despite having the support of one of the most understanding senior developers to ever live, I became anxious and introverted and let my fear of not being good enough ruin what could have been a great first year of my career.
It wasn't until after I was able to create some distance between myself and that experience that I realized what I was feeling was normal and that there are ways to overcome with it.
Ultimately, that's why I'm reaching out to industry veterans now. I'm hoping to destigmatize the ubiquitous feeling of inadequacy among juniors and catalog a set of methodologies for progressing in a software development career.