> I'm not sure how one gets to be responsible for a project without first crushing tickets, though I skipped the whole junior developer thing. I was hired at a

> I'm not sure how one gets to be responsible for a project without first crushing tickets, though I skipped the whole junior developer thing. I was hired at a company as a computer operator based on a prior years internship. I was the only one that knew how to code and they got a contract where they needed to build an entire connected double entry verification data entry system with about 10 screens and a management console. I wrote the entire thing in C in the mid 90s. Unfortunately, after working at another company for 9 years after that, I became an expert beginner by 2008 and didn’t start learning best practices until 2012-2014 at my 4th company. So in other words - “don’t do that”.