Also, I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but I'll say it again:

Part of your job as a senior is to tell your juniors about your fuckups. The embarrassing cringe reckless and lazy bullshit that you did when you were new, and the various times you brought down Prod. We ALL did it sometime. And then tell them: the moment you realized you fucked up, I know, the impulse is to try and cover it up, but don't do it. Come to the seniors you trust, and they'll help you unfuck it, and fight management tooth and claw like mamma and pappa bears to defend you from any shitheads in management. Because that's what our seniors did to us.

@JessTheUnstill One thing I've always loved about working with computers is that if you take reasonable precautions, like having working backups, or taking one-off backups before making changes, that you can un-fuck anything that you fuck-up. You might lose some time, you might lose some face but mistakes can almost always be fixed, and once you realize that it becomes a superpower. Like in "Office Space" where the whole attitude changes once you are no longer afraid of consequences, instead of being paralyzed by fear that you are going to damage the computer, you have confidence that you know how to fix it before you make any change. And for changes where you don't have a working back-out plan you can focus on learning how to make one to make those changes safe, and then you don't have that worry anymore.