Mastodawn

i got a fun question! whats the one piece of advice you'd give someone starting their very first job? or wish you received when you first started?

i'll go first: the ladder is a trap. it sucks climbing it the whole time and there is no cake. bonus: it's never worth it to work with assholes #career

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Cara 17h ago

@ellyxir I thought about this way too long. I think I'm too far removed from the job market conditions today to give advice.

It used to be that knowledge and practice was enough. Now it feels like anyone who cares too much about the engineering of things will get labelled a detractor while the market sucks value out of everything until we're left with s truly dead internet. I have no idea what to do about it in my own professional capacity let alone what to tell others.

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Cara

The personal side might extend a bit easier. If we're outside of traditional job roles then I'd say, learn what *choices you actually have* or that could exist if you change perspective and explore them rather than lean on conventions/rulesets you're taught. There are so many layers of creativity and self determinism that we're told to give up in order to conform/produce. True in life, software, pretty much anything which may seem to be a matter of labor over creativity.