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What's one bit of professional advice you'd give yourself from one year ago?
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Don't try to do everything all at once.
This!
Mockups are NOT useless
Not at ALL! <3
Learn to connect with people and share my little wins
Practice even what seems impossible.
To treat everyone I work with as a collaborator, not a competitor.
Try to get different error instead of getting same error.
Most importantly stay consistent and remain focused on my goals.
Stick with one language until a certain level. You can learn new stuff after finding a job.
Failure is part of the journey
Celebrate ALL achievements, and I mean ALL. No matter how "big" or "small" they seem. Coding is difficult, and being kind to yourself can be the difference between giving up or persisting and succeeding.
Spent 3 hours trying to understand for loops, and still don't fully understand? CELEBRATE
Learned how to declare variables? CELEBRATE
Spent half a day debugging an issue just to find out you forgot a simple operator? CELEBRATE
Don't stay stuck in one path even if others say it's what you "should do". Trust yourself and change lanes if you feel the need.
Don't forget self care. Take care of yourself and remember it is ok to take a break if you need it.
Start building a better social media presence sooner rather than later.
Don't pure all the coffee @ once...
Take it slow and work on Excellence not Perfection...
Stop wasting your time watching hours and hours of video lectures to understand a topic that you can just learn by reading docs in an hour.