{"id":3885,"date":"2024-09-18T09:57:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T14:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2024-09-18T09:57:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T14:57:56","slug":"advice-for-new-software-devs-whove-read-all-those-other-advice-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/advice-for-new-software-devs-whove-read-all-those-other-advice-essays\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice for new software devs who&#8217;ve read all those other advice essays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>11) If possible, try to do a few different types of programming earlier in your career. This doesn&#8217;t have to mean switching jobs: most companies are doing several different kinds of programming at once. So like if you&#8217;re starting in a webdev company, try some frontend, some backend, some operations, some database stuff, and so forth. This helps you learn, but\u00a0<em>far more importantly<\/em>\u00a0increases your chances of finding a kind of software work that you really really like.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/buttondown.com\/hillelwayne\/archive\/advice-for-new-software-devs-whove-read-all-those\/\">Hillel Wayne<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11) If possible, try to do a few different types of programming earlier in your career. This doesn&#8217;t have to mean switching jobs: most companies are doing several different kinds of programming at once. So like if you&#8217;re starting in a webdev company, try some frontend, some backend, some operations, some database stuff, and so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-job-hunting"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pexels-photo-2238149.jpeg?fit=1880%2C1245&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3887,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/3887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}