Day 10 - A Reminder for Dealing with Imposter Syndrome

Do you want to become a Developer? Great!

I have been working as an Engineer for over 5 years now. And I can tell you (from experience) for working in this industry, you need to

  • be comfortable feeling stupid,

  • consistently put in the effort for self-study,

  • and keep having fun!

So, here’s the 1 Tip if you wanted to pursue a similar career path:

Learn the Basics

Since you started reading this article, approx. 3 new framework have been released. By the time you finished a course on one of them, 5 more have been deprecated. But don’t worry, you don’t have to keep up. What remains, are the fundamentals.

After all, this is a long game. (See The Forty-Year Programmer)

Here’s my favorite motivational video about coding! Youtube: The Art of Code

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