The early years of your career are painful.
Long hours
Mediocre pay
Minimal vacation days
Don’t worry though. It gets way better.
Here are 4 career shortcuts to get you to “the good life”.
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Long hours
Mediocre pay
Minimal vacation days
Don’t worry though. It gets way better.
Here are 4 career shortcuts to get you to “the good life”.
⤵️
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If you fix a data issue twice, write a script. If a pipeline fails often, add monitoring. If onboarding takes weeks, document it. Small automations save hours later.
Post architecture diagrams in Slack. Write short updates on infra changes. Share how you reduced query costs. If no one sees your impact, it doesn’t exist.
Show cost savings. Explain the business risk your bug fix prevented. Leaders care about efficiency and reliability, not code.
Pick one and own it. Learn its edge cases. Read the docs. Optimise beyond the basics. Early depth beats shallow knowledge of many tools.
The faster you apply these, the faster you level up.