Just wanted to applaud you for your vulnerability here and also offer a thought: our pains and fears are all relative. It's so important to put our struggles in perspective the way you have ("first world problems!") and pay our immense respect to those who are in need of help right now, but you are still a human experiencing a difficult transition right now.
I'm not a dev, but I work closely with them in my job and I really took for granted how helpful it was to have an engineer sitting next to me to go over high-level concepts IRL. You're doing something difficult without that near-proximity support now, but just remember that everyone you look to for questions was once in the same stage as you are now. Be gentle with yourself and also proud of your accomplishments! Your goal to be talkative in Slack is a great one that sets an open, friendly example for others.
Take care, Caitlyn!
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Just wanted to applaud you for your vulnerability here and also offer a thought: our pains and fears are all relative. It's so important to put our struggles in perspective the way you have ("first world problems!") and pay our immense respect to those who are in need of help right now, but you are still a human experiencing a difficult transition right now.
I'm not a dev, but I work closely with them in my job and I really took for granted how helpful it was to have an engineer sitting next to me to go over high-level concepts IRL. You're doing something difficult without that near-proximity support now, but just remember that everyone you look to for questions was once in the same stage as you are now. Be gentle with yourself and also proud of your accomplishments! Your goal to be talkative in Slack is a great one that sets an open, friendly example for others.
Take care, Caitlyn!