I love this topic. I've definitely been in a situation where I'm just making small fixes to a project that has so many issues that it feels like there's no end in sight. Or it took much longer than I thought it would to ramp up on a technology. It's hard to not internalize that difficulty and think it's your fault. But technology is weird and doesn't usually make sense.
At those times I try to focus on the small improvements I've made, or on the concepts I've learned, even if I have a lot more to learn. It's easy to ignore how far you've come when your destination still isn't that close.
I think feeling a lack of confidence is a natural reaction when you care about your work but you don't see the results you want. But sometimes the technology you're working on is just to get the business to the next stage, and it doesn't need to be maintained forever, or you just need to understand a certain aspect of a new technology and not the whole thing in and out. I've found breaking a big intimidating goal into smaller more achievable goals helps.
Agree with everything you say and you articulated it better than I certainly could LOL. I've been finding that confidence (or lack if) comes in waves. Usually a break through happens and then you have a surge of confidence just for it to sink again later. The amplitude of this back and forth certainly depends on the person but it can be rough. That's what cool about the dev.to platform is that you see others going through the same thing. That tends to help.
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I love this topic. I've definitely been in a situation where I'm just making small fixes to a project that has so many issues that it feels like there's no end in sight. Or it took much longer than I thought it would to ramp up on a technology. It's hard to not internalize that difficulty and think it's your fault. But technology is weird and doesn't usually make sense.
At those times I try to focus on the small improvements I've made, or on the concepts I've learned, even if I have a lot more to learn. It's easy to ignore how far you've come when your destination still isn't that close.
I think feeling a lack of confidence is a natural reaction when you care about your work but you don't see the results you want. But sometimes the technology you're working on is just to get the business to the next stage, and it doesn't need to be maintained forever, or you just need to understand a certain aspect of a new technology and not the whole thing in and out. I've found breaking a big intimidating goal into smaller more achievable goals helps.
Agree with everything you say and you articulated it better than I certainly could LOL. I've been finding that confidence (or lack if) comes in waves. Usually a break through happens and then you have a surge of confidence just for it to sink again later. The amplitude of this back and forth certainly depends on the person but it can be rough. That's what cool about the dev.to platform is that you see others going through the same thing. That tends to help.