One more advice for young programmers is - make the effort and learn the domain you are programming in. If you are writing finance software - use the opportunit

One more advice for young programmers is - make the effort and learn the domain you are programming in. If you are writing finance software - use the opportunity and learn finance/accounting. If you writing retail software, learn about retail. If doing some network automation - learn about networking. I neglected this early on and picked up only enough needed to complete my programming tasks. Now regret this as could have ended up with more options across industries I worked in. Even maybe start your own business if you become expert in some domain.