Hi, my name is Jesus, Im from Venezuela and currently I'm living in Uruguay studying software engineering. I'm halfway through of my career by now, and 4 months ago I started looking for my first job, I found one, as a web developer, and guess what, I didn't have any idea of web development, just the basics, html, css, bootstrap, but I didn't know s**t about backend, node, express, mongo, etc etc, NOTHING.
So, my first month in the company began, I was nervous as hell. At first, I started with courses to learn what I needed it (Their intention for me was that I became a MERN stack developer) so for a whole month I learned all the necessary.
At my second month I started my capacitation proyect, a simple project to put in practice what I learned from the courses. Things happen and I took a long time to finished, almost 2 months, and that wasn't good, one of my main problems was that I make a lot of mistakes while coding, and those mistakes took me a long time to debug them, most of them on backend, but, I learned a lot, which for me is what matters. My bosses were displeased with my situation and until this day they keep telling me that in a certain way.
I'm about to start my 4th month, I started last week a project with a client, an easy project, and I'm giving my best at it, but my bosses told me last week that in their opinion Im not ready to be in a bigger project and that I should work harder (thing that I do), sooo, I don't know, this is my first job and i'm not scare about failure, I hope I can knock out this project and finish it on time, but if I dont, I dont know how I will feel about it, I hope I could learn a lot of that situation.
Well, this was my first post, sorry if a made grammar mistakes, I hope you read it and I don't know, be happy and happy coding!
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Wow that sounds, intense. I'm on my third year self study, and I can say I sympathize with that completely. I can't imagine how stressful it is to properly study while having client projects on your hands.
Try to learn the basics and if you pick up new things, make sure they're practical. You can make good work just having an eye for design and knowing how the frontend trio work.
That's exactly what I'm trying to do, learn as much as I can and do my best in every aspect, and yes, sometimes is stressful but I'm trying to be organized as hell so I can have time for myself, classes and work.
Thanks for the message and have a good day!
Gerardo, felicidades en tu primera entrada (is that the right word?) Keep writing thinking, and persevering! Be honest with your clients and bosses - ask for help from seniors if available, and keep looking for opportunities that might be more supportive of where you're at. You got this!
Good spanish m8 hahah, thanks for the advices and the support!