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CowBerry · 2022-11-20T13:01:30.474Z

Do you remember when you were driving a car for the first time? How new everything felt and how it seemed it was all too much to handle at once? You had to pay attention to the other vehicles, to navigate where you wanted to go, to shift gears, even ...

Lovely stuff, deservedly featured. Thank you!

Thanks CowBerry for this amazing article.

Thank you for sharing , I like your approach on things.

Definitely going to wait for the article release! Would check out the YouTube channel as well. Thank youuuuuuuuu.

Thank you for sharing! I'm yet to get my first dev job, but how I was ever going to survive when I got one has always been a constant source of worry to me. Even when it comes to applying for roles. I see job descriptions and I feel so overwhelmed and under qualified. This was great. Thank you!

Thank you Dumebi for the positive feedback.

Welcome to imposter syndrome. We all have it to some extent.

To calm you down. I believe the hardest part is actually to start interviewing for the jobs.

My rule of thumb is to apply if I match 50 - 80 percent of the job description. Then it's just a numbers game. Maybe you'll have to apply a lot before you get your first job, but you'll get it eventually.

And once you get it, it's actually pretty hard to get fired. If you're motivated, push yourself and show up every day chances are you'll do much better than the majority of your coworkers. ;)

Youtube channel that helped me to overcome some of the struggles you might have now -> youtube.com/@AndySterkowitz .

Also I have an article in making on How to get your first job ;) Will publish it next weekend.

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