>Is it still possible for someone like me to turn things around? Yes. Your very first full-time job now is to get a job in the field. Take a look at MIT's "Mi

>Is it still possible for someone like me to turn things around? Yes. Your very first full-time job now is to get a job in the field. Take a look at MIT's "Missing Semester". It'll expose you to a panoply of tools that will get you "semi-operational". This will not make you "stand out", but it is much better when new hires are already familiar with common tools of the trade. Be humble, courteous, curious, helpful, reliable, diligent, patient, grateful, industrious and you'll progress fast. When you get the job, here are a few pointers that will help you ramp up fast: Understanding codebases: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19924100 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19924100 Testing pipelines, scaffolding, issue templates: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26591067 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26591067 Making the most out of meetings and leveraging your presence: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22873103 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22873103 Product development: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827841 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827841 Giving a damn: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20356222 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20356222 If I disappear, what will happen: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25008223 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25008223 Consulting, understanding the problem your "client", who can be your manager, has: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24972611 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24972611 On taking notes. When you're told something, or receive a remark, make sure to make a note and learn from it whether it's a mistake, or a colleague showing you something useful, or a task you must accomplish.. don't be told things twice or worse. Be on the ball and reliable: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24209518 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24209518 Product, architecture, and impact on the team: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24503365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24503365 Onboarding new hires to a codebase, what if it were you, improve code: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22860716 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22860716 Tips to learn from videos: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22710623 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22710623 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22723586 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22723586 Communication with the team: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21598632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21598632 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21614372 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21614372 Reduce information asymmetry, template for taking minutes of meetings to dispatch to the team: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21427886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21427886 More meeting notes. Reply to a person who had trouble talking in corporate meetings: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20323660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20323660 Communication, alignment: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24177646 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24177646 Useful things for the team and product that add leverage: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21808439 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21808439 Management involvement as a spectrum: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22715971 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22715971 Researching topics: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25922120 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25922120 Keeping up with a firehose of information: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26147502 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26147502 Fractal Communication: communication that can penetrate several layers of management and be relevant to people with different profiles and skillsets: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26123017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26123017 Remote work, use existing tooling and build our own. Jitsi videos, record everything, give access to everyone so they can reference them and go back to them, meetings once a week or two weeks to align: -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26179539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26179539 Write better. Always.