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Right. Hence my concern about the lack of helpful advice other than “accept yourself”[1]: Neophyte engineers lacking guardrails and local mentors should fall b
by otterley 5y ago
Right. Hence my concern about the lack of helpful advice other than “accept yourself”[1]: Neophyte engineers lacking guardrails and local mentors should fall back to what they learned in school: experiment, use your books, and ask questions from the community. Mentors can be found outside the immediate workplace, after all.
And when it comes to taking production risks, measure twice and cut once, just like a good carpenter.
[1] Of course you should accept yourself. But that alone won’t advance the profession or one’s career.
- crispyambulance 5y ago> measure twice and cut once Being able to do that is a luxury that many do not enjoy in nose-to-the-grindstone workplaces. You make an estimate (or someone makes it for you), then you gotta deliver mentor or no mentor, and whether you know the finer points of database design/care-and-feeding or not. There's something good to be said for taking action. Rachelbythebay did just fine. No one died, the company didn't suffer, it was just a problem, it got corrected later. Big whoop.