Early Career Mentoring Advice
"When looking for a job, focus on knowledge instead of money." It is easy to make a mistake of going for a job that pays a little more (nothing life changing) and later on being less employable because of lacking important skills, with key technolog...
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Great advice Guilherme. I totally agree with it. I am really enthustic about software development. Whenever I startef at my first company, I had lots of opportunities to learn new languages, technologies and to learn from my collageues. It was awesome. Then years passed and nothing changed. The technologies became obsolete, there were no more mentoring, and the previously great opportunity became a complete nightmare. Having no uptodate knowkedge about technologies, having no feedback for my work at all lead me to become the perfect examplar of the impostor syndrom which resulted in years of depression. Only whenever I decided to move towards test autimation releived me from the depression. Suddenly I learnt a lot if new technologies and afterva few months, I decided to switch to another company. Sinxe then I am thriving again. I was never so productive in the past as I am now 😊