Career Lessons
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Starts from marketing then builds a Microsoft Access contact database that everyone adopts, moves into HTML and front-end work, lands a Drupal front-end role at NASA, then accepts a job at Synapse in IoT and learns Python while still using JavaScript, introduces a buggy pull request, survives a team retrospective, and reports 70% of people experience impostor feelings. Presents five concrete career moves: take scary risks, learn from mistakes, find mentors, drive projects, and set goals that both scare and excite.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 7:34WHEN YOU ARE REALLY AFRAID OF DOING SOMETHING THAT'S ALL THE MORE REASON YOU SHOULD DO IT
- 10:10GIVE YOURSELF PERMISSION TO FAIL
- 16:41SET GOALS THAT SCARE YOU AND EXCITE YOU AT THE SAME TIME
- 17:311. If you are scared do it anyway 2. Making mistakes is ok 3. Find a mentor 4. Take the wheel and drive 5. Set goals that scare and excite you
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