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Take as many different projects as you can. Develop your T-shaped skills and more importantly figure out WHY you are building what you’re building. How does it help the company? The customer? Every time. Learn to ask questions that a business partner understands. Think. Don’t be an order-taker (as much as possible; sometimes we just have to do things). Understand the long-term vision and think about how to drive value at MVPs. How can you tell the story?
These things will help you now and open up your journey so you can say in tech, pursue architecture, product ownership or mgmt, etc. Being business and customer-minded while having deep knowledge of how the proverbial sausage gets made will open many doors.
My three:
1) Communication: the ability to clearly communicate your thoughts, ideas, risks, etc is always needed. This includes story telling and growing consensus.
2) Adaptability: the only constant in tech is change. You must be able to grow and adapt will make you stand out amongst your peers.
3) Work Ethic: In my experience 50%+ of people do the bare minimum (or less). The willingness to work hard and deliver will make you better than at least 50% of your peers.
Good luck!
C1: Then leave and go somewhere where your work ethic is appreciated. Not working hard because it might not be recognized or appreciated is short sighted at best.
I am old school, I have pride in my work. It might not always get recognized or rewarded however I still know that I did my best and have pride in what I do. This applies to my marriage, work, jobs around the house, hobbies, etc. Don't half ass things.
Speaking up in meetings or leading meetings. Not shying away for it. Meetings are your platform to shine and depending on role, your job may require you to lead meetings, demos and so on. Good news is most people hate it, are terrified, but enough practice gets you there. Also, nobody really knows anything and making up as they go, so don't be afraid to ask questions and be curious.
I totally agree with this advice about speaking up. Speaking from personal experience, hearing what you have to say will allow others to provide feedback, which might sometimes be disappointing but at other times rewarding. For example, I never knew I had good ideas until I got the courage to voice them.
Invest in your skill set and learn the foundations really well first
Key for tech, STEM, anything quantitative...
Not to be in tech
Why not? What's the downside from your perspective?
Fancy business speak.
Surround yourself with people that are smarter than you are. If you are the smartest in the room, you are in the wrong room.
1. Understand that you will likely put thousands or millions of decent, hard-working people out of work.
2. That your employers have no morality and are driven by greed.
3.That your employers and bosses to not care about you one bit.
I would tell myself to get hands on with everything you can. College and the degree has helped on paper, but it was a drop in the bucket when I actually got into a job. I wished I would have added more projects and had more technical skill experience.
Always be looking for the next step up or over in your career. Do NOT trust your employer, all you are is a number to them. Watch out for yourself and always be looking out for you.
Spot on we’re just all numbers on spreadsheets to organisations.
Nothing more.
We owe them no loyalty. Whatsoever.
Learn as much as you can as soon as you can - knowledge and demonstration of that knowledge will take you a long way
Learn accounting.
Become a plumber or electrician.
Never ever go into debt.
Drive and ability to finish something you start. If you have those two qualities you’ll get very far. If you have all the skills in the world, but no drive or ability to finish, you’ll go nowhere
Learn AI prompts and tools ASAP
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They do not someone to do that. Look at Cursor and they can just use a standard file to prompt the AI. This can all be cataloged.
It’s careful communication. As a developer, you’re expected to be able to figure out the code side of things, and you should be able to. Choosing your words based on your audience is by far the most important thing to hone. Business people don’t want to hear that your kafka pipeline needs more partitions, or whatever, just that you understand the problem that’s hitting the customer and that you can effectively fix it. On the other hand, you should be able to explain everything about an issue to your team, and why your fix is necessary and sufficient.
Get into Product Management early as a PO, specifically for a B2E solution or internal-facing team. You'll enjoy the perks of developing great SaaS products without dealing with external customer headaches. Improve your craft by constantly upskilling to the point that learning becomes a part of you,
Tech was fun in the 70s 80s. Now all computer driven. I made a bad choice want out of it now. I'm devry tech grad but no one needs a component level tech now and smt has made it nearly impossible. Progress not alwsys a good thing.
100%!
Ensure that you understand your finances and how to save and invest your earnings.
Understand that a higher salary will lead to significant wage growth even if you're not going to be in the job for a long time.
Be loyal to yourself and market yourself. Most companies don't have loyalty to anyone.
Take credit where credit is due. Ensure others know what you've done.
Understand how to transition from individual contributor to more strategic roles earlier.
Understanding a ton of people have imposter syndrome and it's ok. Play to your strengths and advance yourself.
No one knows everything and that's ok.
If I could go back and have a conversation with my yourself, it would be first to learn how to script and secondly, I would tell to learn as much as they can about the Windows Server platforms and to continue to improve their technical skills in a wide bay of troubleshooting skills and most important which a lot of techs forget is you’re there to provide a service the you always put the people first.
I would have tried harder to have a side gig that didn't involve heavy manual labor. I could always find ways to make money when I was younger. Now, even if I were unemployed, I wouldn't take a job that requires lifting of any sort.
Keep in that my part of "tech" is quite different from IT. I would tell my younger self that it is as important which companies you work for was what the work is you actually do. Startups are fun and you learn a lot but more of them fail and are forgotten. Many employers will dismiss your experience if they are unfamiliar with the company you did it for.