Hey hey hey! Welcome back to CodeNewbie Podcast, our little corner of DEV in which we share weekly interviews with tech professionals to give you supportive advice to further your development career.
Last week we released our second episode of this season with @aaspinwall, Frontend Engineer at Amazon. In this episode we discussed music, the importance of adaptability, career shifts, bootcamp, and AI toolkits, oh my!
PSSST: If you’d like to listen, get into it!
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At the end of each episode we have four main questions we ask our guests. You’ll have to tune in to hear the full answers, but in the meantime, I would love to hear y’alls responses to my favorite question in the roundup this week.
This week’s question is: “What is the best advice you’ve ever received?”
I quite liked what Alejandro shared with us, so have opted to loosely paraphrase it for y’all for inspiration:
“I had a teacher in university and every time we would ask ‘are we doing it well’ or ‘can we have some feedback for this’. He used to say, ‘I don’t know! Think about it. Are you doing it well? Are you having fun? Is it the right way to do it?’. It was very hard for me to understand and I thought he was trolling me, but then I thought, I should try to understand these questions more instead of trying to figure them out from an absolute perspective.
Just trust yourself a little more.
Sometimes there is no right answer for things.”
So without further ado, let me know the best advice you’ve ever received.
See ya tomorrow with our new episode.
