Confidence, mostly. I started out as a .NET developer, and I worked my way up from junior to senior over the space of a few years. At my last .NET role, I help

Confidence, mostly. I started out as a .NET developer, and I worked my way up from junior to senior over the space of a few years. At my last .NET role, I helped shape the structure of .NET development for my satellite office and the growing London team. Despite being considered a decent enough .NET developer, I had felt a bit of imposter syndrome around my skills. In the wider tech community, .NET and C# has always been a pariah, and while looking at who was hiring in my local area, I decided to apply for a role that didn't involve any .NET. Now, I write Ruby, and while there was a learning curve to start with, I can firmly say that I am capable of adapting to a new stack. I like Ruby, and I still like .NET, but I feel so much more confident about learning new things now that I've proved that I can do it.