No, I can't really recommend my path and I do not try to propagate it to mentees. I basically had no choice because there was no one around to teach me. So I had to learn most tech-related things by putting in the extra time to learn the hard way. Sometimes it was a fun exploration, but many times it was banging the head against the wall b/c it was not working and blocking users from work. I would have much preferred someone to apprentice me and teach me good practices to skip a lot of wasted effort. So that's what I try to do with co-workers when they ask. It is entirely possible that I just have a negative survivor bias.
By now I already have established an obsessive pattern of getting super interested in something, then researching it to death and turning it over in my mind endlessly. So it's too late for me, but I hope to save others who desire balance. ;) However, really driven people are going to put in extra time regardless. It is just in their nature.
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No, I can't really recommend my path and I do not try to propagate it to mentees. I basically had no choice because there was no one around to teach me. So I had to learn most tech-related things by putting in the extra time to learn the hard way. Sometimes it was a fun exploration, but many times it was banging the head against the wall b/c it was not working and blocking users from work. I would have much preferred someone to apprentice me and teach me good practices to skip a lot of wasted effort. So that's what I try to do with co-workers when they ask. It is entirely possible that I just have a negative survivor bias.
By now I already have established an obsessive pattern of getting super interested in something, then researching it to death and turning it over in my mind endlessly. So it's too late for me, but I hope to save others who desire balance. ;) However, really driven people are going to put in extra time regardless. It is just in their nature.