I would worry that you get a lot better as you go so that by the 3rd year, your starting work looks shoddy by comparison and you have to go back and re-do a lot

I would worry that you get a lot better as you go so that by the 3rd year, your starting work looks shoddy by comparison and you have to go back and re-do a lot. Like code I wrote 6 months ago looks like schlock, but that's not something anybody sees.