I haven't had a long career yet. On the contrary I took a long gap early in my career (quit my job after one year of working at my first company) with no foreseeable plans to return to software development.
Meanwhile while I battle my inner fears of lack of confidence and worth and financial uncertainty, I'm finding it extremely and excruciatingly difficult to find a selfless mentor to guide me to make my first production ready app, not because it's hard, but because I do not know how to ask for help this big.
Even more meanwhile (I'm nesting meanwhiles now 😅), taking advice from JLongster I've started to not attempt to not feel inadequate and spend more time researching before I jump onto making something. The irony of this approach is, as I research I find the lack growing instead of the original expectation that it'd reduce. But hopefully I'll keep on it.
The biggest change in how I develop software in my short career yet has been to survive. I remember the day when we were in the middle of our 6 months training, because we were hired freshers from other backgrounds than computer science or IT. I couldn't keep up with the pace and decided to pack up and leave the first flight that weekend. I did pack my bags but stayed back wondering that giving up is easy for a reason — living up with the consequences of giving up equalises the easiness that came with it, perhaps the other option might be worth it, no matter how much time it'll take.
Non sticky pan to events 🥘🍳