Early Career Mentoring Advice
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Miki Szeles4y ago
Great advice Guilherme. I totally agree with it. I am really enthustic about software development. Whenever I startef at my first company, I had lots of opportunities to learn new languages, technologies and to learn from my collageues. It was awesome. Then years passed and nothing changed. The technologies became obsolete, there were no more mentoring, and the previously great opportunity became a complete nightmare. Having no uptodate knowkedge about technologies, having no feedback for my work at all lead me to become the perfect examplar of the impostor syndrom which resulted in years of depression. Only whenever I decided to move towards test autimation releived me from the depression. Suddenly I learnt a lot if new technologies and afterva few months, I decided to switch to another company. Sinxe then I am thriving again. I was never so productive in the past as I am now 😊
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Guilherme Macedo Cestari4y ago
glad to hear you liked the advice, Miklòs! Also, what a cool story you’ve shared in your comment - thank you very much for sharing 🙏🏼 It’s great that you’ve found your happiness again, tech is a very big field and I believe we can always find something that makes us happy within it!
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Miki Szeles4y ago
Thanks. Actually I wrote a very long article about my story, but I did not dare to post it yet as it is quite personal, on the other hand it would be valuable to a lot of people, so I am pretty sure I will post at some point in the future. 😊Guilherme Macedo Cestari
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