This is absolutely great advice. These values I have held firm to since day 1. I have been with my mentor for 1 year and I have the utmost respect for him. I don’t believe you should try if you’re not in it for the long haul. Thanks for the content. Your great!!
One master's degree and 3y of experience in BE development, worked /w top-tier devs, mediors, juniors, multiple projects, POCs, techdebt, bugs, spikes, deployments, support, tickets, blablabla you name it. I still feel like a junior lol. In fact, my programming skills feel deteriorated. I haven't spent any time learning a new language, framework, or checking out docs and trying stuff out. 60% of time goes to corporate tasks like meetings and administration, 20%-30% to non-coding tasks, 10%-20% actual coding (including bugs).
3:42 I like to think of it as "their not committed yet", took me 2 years to get close to the "got serious about code" stage XD Still wouldn't say I'm quite there yet, but love looking into what others are working on :D
Yeah, and that commitment level certainly can rise over time. I spent many years just playing around with coding before I got serious with it. In terms of expecting mentorship though, I'd just lower your expectations for who's going to be willing to mentor you and in what capacity until you are committed.
Being immune to good advice is the #1 reason I dropped the guy I was helping. Guy was rejecting simple advice because it wasn’t “scalable”. Before you learn to build something that scales to millions of users, how about you just learn build something first? That guy is on month 18 of a 3 month full stack project because his opinions don’t align with reality. The guy is 40% done and works all day on it. Absolutely bonkers.
This is absolutely great advice. These values I have held firm to since day 1. I have been with my mentor for 1 year and I have the utmost respect for him. I don’t believe you should try if you’re not in it for the long haul. Thanks for the content. Your great!!
That's awesome to hear. It sounds like a great relationship!
Thank you so much Don!! 🥰🥰
One master's degree and 3y of experience in BE development, worked /w top-tier devs, mediors, juniors, multiple projects, POCs, techdebt, bugs, spikes, deployments, support, tickets, blablabla you name it. I still feel like a junior lol. In fact, my programming skills feel deteriorated. I haven't spent any time learning a new language, framework, or checking out docs and trying stuff out. 60% of time goes to corporate tasks like meetings and administration, 20%-30% to non-coding tasks, 10%-20% actual coding (including bugs).
3:42
I like to think of it as "their not committed yet", took me 2 years to get close to the "got serious about code" stage XD Still wouldn't say I'm quite there yet, but love looking into what others are working on :D
Yeah, and that commitment level certainly can rise over time. I spent many years just playing around with coding before I got serious with it. In terms of expecting mentorship though, I'd just lower your expectations for who's going to be willing to mentor you and in what capacity until you are committed.
Being immune to good advice is the #1 reason I dropped the guy I was helping.
Guy was rejecting simple advice because it wasn’t “scalable”.
Before you learn to build something that scales to millions of users, how about you just learn build something first?
That guy is on month 18 of a 3 month full stack project because his opinions don’t align with reality. The guy is 40% done and works all day on it. Absolutely bonkers.
Gotta learn to walk before you can run!
Hi, Don. What screen capture software do you use?
OBS
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