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Discussion on: Is DevOps a good career for Jr developers?

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Carlos Manique Silva • Edited

As with many things with life, find what you love and it will never be a chore.

I'm aware that many people don't have that choice, or maybe aren't exposed to a lot of variety when they start.

I've been lucky enough to have senior managers, leads and mentors that really pushed the envelope with exposing newbies to absurd amounts of variety, sometimes just for learning purposes without actual project or company benefit.
I'm really grateful that happened and I model my coaching of junior devs after that.

More specific to your case, I see that the market is very welcoming of junior profiles on the devops space, especially the ops part of it, and if the person is particularly geeky on unixes the better.

My advice is to try and find your path early, but also to diversify with other things to keep you on the edge, especially the ones you don't like.

It's never a zero sum game, you can be a jack of all trades and master of one or a few of them and that will go a long way further down the road.