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While learning from others is great, to get good at this profession, you really need to become a life long self learner (autodidact). Seek out challenges that i
by chrisbennet 9y ago
While learning from others is great, to get good at this profession, you really need to become a life long self learner (autodidact). Seek out challenges that interest you and implement them using new technologies and techniques.
I'm an old dog but I've been learning new tricks listening to the podcast "Coding Blocks". It's great to listen to on a long commute or trip.
- bacro 9y agoI understand that and I am an autodidact, but it's just unbearable the amount of information we need to learn to master a certain technology/language. I have many projects at the same time and of different kinds, I am doing web projects, react-native mobile projects and I give support to older desktop applications. I am kind a jack-of-all-trades master of none, you know? It's very difficult to improve like this because when I get home I am always tired and also I wanna have some life that is not coding...
- chrisbennet 9y agoI hear you. I do have some related advice: Don't refer to yourself as a "jack of all trades" in cover letters or such. When someone reads/hears that phrase they mentally fill in "master of none". You, my friend, are a "Swiss army knife" from now on. :-)
- bacro 9y agoHahaha understood friend :)