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That time a senior dev told me to stop asking for help....
Back when I was a junior dev at a marketing agency in Denver, this guy named Mark with 15 years experience told me I looked weak always asking questions. Said I needed to figure things out on my own. So I stopped asking. Spent 3 days chasing a bug that turned out to be a missing semicolon in a config file. In front of the whole team during a demo. Mark just shrugged. Has anyone else had bad advice like that from someone who seemed like they knew what they were talking about?
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iris_mason8821d ago
Honestly though, Mark had a point. You're supposed to be a professional, not someone who needs their hand held over every little thing. A missing semicolon? That's basic debugging 101, not a problem that deserves three days of hand-wringing.
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johnh8221d ago
My buddy Dave spent like 4 hours one night tracking down a bug in his javascript. Turns out he put a curly brace on the wrong line. He was pissed but honestly that's just part of the job. You look at the code, you find the mistake, you fix it and move on. Nobody is gonna pat you on the back for finally noticing a missing semicolon three days later. If you can't handle that basic stuff without needing a support group maybe you're in the wrong field.
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