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Discussion on: [On-Demand Talk] How to Provide Value from Day One of Your Dev Career

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Tiffany (she/ela)

Just started on my first newbie dev job and I'm kinda lost as I don't really have a team. It's just me reporting to my very busy boss. It's hard to show value when you spend 9-6 writing code all by yourself and only reports when you are having trouble or when things are already done.

I was looking forward for this one!

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Elias Amini

Hi Tiffany,

You're not alone! It's hard on smaller teams sometimes when you feel as though you have low visibility. I'm right there with you!

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Tiffany (she/ela)

Hi Elias, thank you so much for the support!

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Thuy Doan

I'm in a Discord of peeps where some of them are contractors and, because they don't have a team to lean on, they come into the Discord and join a little virtual coworker space as a support system. If you want to know about it, let me know :)

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Tiffany (she/ela)

Hi, Thuy! I'd love to join this server - I have been using Discord to find people to study together and it's very helpful, having a coworker space would be lovely. As someone who comes from an arts & communication career, I don't really have people around me who are in tech.

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Thuy Doan

Same, Tiffany! Before this Discord, I barely had any tech friends outside of work. And I mean, your workplace isn't forever so best to have a support system that isn't tied to a temporary thing. Please email me at clearlythuydoan@gmail and I can send you the details for your consideration :)