Mistakes help us grow, What was your one mistake that you want others not to do that?
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Mistakes help us grow, What was your one mistake that you want others not to do that?
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Not collaborating with others on projects, opting to fly solo most times.
I only have the one internship under my belt, about 9 months. I do not work in development presently, but I work on various personal projects on my free time. So take this for what it's worth.
I've come to realize that having just one other person to collaborate with is a game changer. Talking through problems, developing a path forward, bouncing ideas of each other as we work towards a solution, and a greater drive to put in effort as to not disappoint our peers. We also bring something different to the table, which help fill in knowledge gaps.
Collaborating with others can also help with networking and employment later on. All it takes is for one of the people you've worked on a project with to suggest you as a candidate for an open position and you now have your foot in the door.
Thanks for sharing!!!
No problem! If I can help someone learn from my mistake, it wasn't a mistake.
I made the wrong career choice in my life, after clearing high school, I thought that I could become CA and enrolled myself but after some time I feel that this is the worst decision I ever made. I don't know how to tell my family about this that I wanted to become a programmer, but I can't tell to my family. I belong to poor family background, and they already spent 22000 INR rupees on me, but I feel myself to be a burden to them. And because of that, I am suffering from a lot of mental pressure. Ever since I found that I wanted to become a programmer, every single day I feel regret enrolling myself in the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. I don't know how to handle this.
So, please when you are deciding about your career path please consider all the sorts of things, because one single mistake in life makes you feel regret and you can't do anything about it.
Wow, good luck and thanks for sharing!
Spending too much time in a company and having faith in their promises . Could have quit earlier but I was afraid that I might not be “good enough “ for the market. So I ended up believing in their promises that I would get a better salary and a promotion in X months/years.
My advice is: if you’re not satisfied with your current job ,project or compensation and the managers keep making promises of a better future instead of solving the issue right now, just quit. It will be scary if you have been there for a long time, but once you do it you will feel a lot better.
I had the exact same situation, thanks a lot for sharing
I first mistake is very common which most of developers always do which is
"blindly get attrackted to shiny objects like new code editor, new programming language, new course, etc"
New Courses ✋
thanks a lot for sharing
The biggest mistake I made in my career as a Software Engineer was to venture into project management.
thanks a lot for sharing! can I ask why?
1) Team leading is fine and more about supporting your team mates but Project management is more about balancing the books (costs and time) and appeasing senior management.
2) The nature of the project meant the role was a complete switch from technical to managerial, which was not for me.
3) After 3 years it took me another 4 years to get back into a technical role. It made me realise how much a love being and engineer.
The age-old lesson: be careful what you ask for.
Wow thanks a lot🙏🏻
I didn't do some mistake tell in my career when i managing the site bills.com.pk/
Thanks for sharing🙏🏻
Not going freelance sooner ... my last "boring office job" was really a low, and a waste of time - it totally didn't live up to the expectations that I'd had, it was a dud on so many levels ... but, it really convinced me to change course and go freelance, and do things completely different :)
thanks a lot for sharing!
For my, it's not taking coding seriously from day one. I was fired from my retail job in 2019. Since then I've started my coding journey. Unfortunately in the beginning, I made the mistake of jumping from language to language hoping to find a language that's "easier" to learn. I've also wasted time in "tutorial hell". I'd basically just follow along with the instructor instead of trying things out for myself and doing my research. And of course not building projects outside of the course. Huge mistake right there.
Fast forward to now, although my skills aren't perfect, I'm finally getting better at HTML and CSS by building real projects. I do rely on tutorials but not as much as before. I'm also joining meetups and networking from time to time.
Sometimes I beat myself up for wasting so much time because if I was doing what I'm doing now, back when I started my coding journey, I would have had a job by now.
Thanks a lot for sharing🙏🏻
I was once in a bad situation — I didn't get along with a person, and likewise that person did not get along with me. I should have extricated myself from that situation about nine months earlier than I did. My bad. Lesson learned. The aftermath: everything was much better.
The next time I was in a similar bad situation (about a decade later), I extricated myself from it in two weeks. Felt good.
thanks a lot for sharing!
4 years in a toxic job. 0/10 don't recommend.
same here for a year, thanks for sharing!