As the title states. I’ve been a software developer for a year now and work for a tiny company, where the salary isn’t amazing. I got paid more at Apple Genius Bar, but it wasn’t as challenging.

I still feel like I’m stupid, I’ll rely on the owner lead engineer for help on the more complex problems and because we have a great set of conventions I’ll frequently be going back to old projects to extract the logic from their. Whether that be reading from Excel spreadsheets or the controller flow, as we use GraphQL api for most calls.

Does it just click at some point?

  • zelifcam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    5 months ago

    One year is nothing.

    Learn as much as you can from the people around you at your current position.

    Find a new technology or existing one you want to improve/learn and create a project out of it that you can do at home.

    Look for ways to improve your productivity.

    Become a SME.

    One day you will own a project, helping the new guy and be the person people come to if they have questions.

    Put in the time. You’ll find your way.

    • dependencyinjectionOP
      2·
      5 months ago

      Thanks.

      Yeah you’re right one year is nothing, I have a tendency to overthink and want to know what the future will hold.

      I am planning on learning more about the security side as this is something we don’t offer and think it could be a great addition for clients to not have to pay for their own pen testing etc.

      Plus the boss does a lot with LLMs so I’ve been showing willingness to learn more about integrating these and he is more than happy to guide me and show me the cool things he’s built for us to use.