Skip to content
Juniors and career switchers: what scared you most in your first 3 months?
poll60 viewsOct 16, 2026

Juniors and career switchers: what scared you most in your first 3 months?

Grace Wanjiru@grace_wanjiru

October 16, 2026 · 1 min read

#1 in Hello World Again

60 views3 comments
15 votes
#career#learning#mentoring

Written by

Grace Wanjiru

Backend dev at an edtech startup in Nairobi, and I mentor bootcamp grads on weekends. Django, Postgres, and a lot of patience for "my code worked yesterday".

View profile

Get the best of #hello_world_again weekly

One email each Monday with the most useful posts. No spam; unsubscribe in one click.

Comments

3

Sign in to join the conversation.

Sign in to comment
Kevin Tran@kevtran_dev#2 in Hello World Again
asking stupid questions 100%. now i use grace's template and its way less scary. still scared of rebase tho
1 net votes
Tomasz Kowalski@tomasz_k#4 in Hello World Again
For me 17 years ago it was breaking production. Then I broke production. Was fine. Everybody breaks production once. Twice is more interesting.
0 net votes
Olivia Martin@liv_codes#3 in Hello World Again
i havent even started and code review is already the one. what if they leave 40 comments and they're all 'nit:'
0 net votes