Hope you're not too nervous about it all! In my experience choosing a position that offers more challenge rather than less forces you into a "strive to be great" mentality and prevents stagnation. You'll likely have a lot of fun :)
That's reassuring to hear, and not stagnating is what I'm aiming for! Regardless of how the experience turns out (which I'm sure I'll be fine, haha maybe comments like this can keep me "accountable" in six month's time), I'm excited to see what I'd have learnt from it!
For sure and I think that's the best way to look at it :). I took a new job nearly 2 years ago now where I knew very little about most of the tech stack they use. And I'm so glad I did because I'm still learning each day and I also know I'm able to add my own expertise into the business and add value.
I'm a fan of Open Source and have a growing interest in serverless and edge computing. I'm not a big fan of spiders, but they're doing good work eating bugs. I also stream on Twitch.
Some pretty big changes! A new dev job coming up in London, which is a big move for me having grown up and come from smaller cities before.
As if that's not challenging enough... I will also be working with Rust in my new job, and I don't know an awful lot about it just yet 🙈
And all of that has inspired me to write this up (shameless plug upcoming 😂):
Five advice for a developer settling into a new team
Darren Vong ・ Dec 23 ・ 7 min read
Hope you're not too nervous about it all! In my experience choosing a position that offers more challenge rather than less forces you into a "strive to be great" mentality and prevents stagnation. You'll likely have a lot of fun :)
That's reassuring to hear, and not stagnating is what I'm aiming for! Regardless of how the experience turns out (which I'm sure I'll be fine, haha maybe comments like this can keep me "accountable" in six month's time), I'm excited to see what I'd have learnt from it!
For sure and I think that's the best way to look at it :). I took a new job nearly 2 years ago now where I knew very little about most of the tech stack they use. And I'm so glad I did because I'm still learning each day and I also know I'm able to add my own expertise into the business and add value.
Best of luck into the new year!
Big changes and big challenges, but it sounds awesome. I'm sure you'll do great!
Thank you! It's fair to say I'm super excited but equally a bit nervous! I'm sure the nerve will settle once I got into the hang of things 😅😅