New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to avoid career stagnation in my 20s?
Ask HN: How to avoid career stagnation in my 20s?
6 by rschachte | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I'm currently approaching year 2 of my current job and have been in the industry for about 5 years since I graduated with my masters in comp sci. A couple years ago, I did the leetcode thing to get cushy pay and worked really hard for the first year and a half. I'm now extremely bored and realizing all I'm doing is pushing Kafka messages and writing Java micro-services, leaving me with this daily existential dread of not advancing my career or knowledge. Despite spending a lot of my time reading, learning and admiring tech, I'm sitting in my office wanting bigger and better opportunities so I can grow into a solid engineer. I've never had a mentor and despite seeking out mentors, I'm not sure how to really go about finding one that can provide guidance like this. I want to have opportunities to dive deep and become smarter, but realizing I don't really know how to best go about this. Money isn't everything, however, I do still need a job to keep me afloat as my partner and I live in a high cost of living area (for her job).
6 by rschachte | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I'm currently approaching year 2 of my current job and have been in the industry for about 5 years since I graduated with my masters in comp sci. A couple years ago, I did the leetcode thing to get cushy pay and worked really hard for the first year and a half. I'm now extremely bored and realizing all I'm doing is pushing Kafka messages and writing Java micro-services, leaving me with this daily existential dread of not advancing my career or knowledge. Despite spending a lot of my time reading, learning and admiring tech, I'm sitting in my office wanting bigger and better opportunities so I can grow into a solid engineer. I've never had a mentor and despite seeking out mentors, I'm not sure how to really go about finding one that can provide guidance like this. I want to have opportunities to dive deep and become smarter, but realizing I don't really know how to best go about this. Money isn't everything, however, I do still need a job to keep me afloat as my partner and I live in a high cost of living area (for her job).
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