3rd week at my first developer job. Did a couple PRs with the help of my mentor. Still feel absolutely useless. I feel like a complete imposter.

At work, do you act like you know it all when in reality you have no clue what you’re doing? You’re an imposter if the answer is yes.

If you have and show an eagerness to learn and improve then a good mentor will see that and know they are doing their job.

A mentor helps you grow, no matter where your starting point is.

Paid imposter > unpaid imposter

I just finished a small utility script in Python for a rather large company, shit was about 600 lines of code. Prolly worth about $4000 considering the time (we'll see how that pays out, not worried about it)

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And I have over 13 years of professional paid experience. I am also a "senior" and the head of my department.

You're good kid, don't sweat it

@black-kite not in the slightest. I express my eagerness to learn. And they know I’m very green in this industry. I’m very open and honest when it comes to things I don’t and do know.

@BobbyTables my mentor is great. He said it takes a while when it comes to learning any new code base but especially something as complex as ours. And I agree with him. We are all remote. But he said he would come into the office every day if that would help me. And it has. I really appreciate him and he's helping me become a better developer.

@Blernnn that’s awesome.
If the company hired you it’s because they believed you had the skills. But in any new dev job it takes weeks if not months before you can actually start applying those skills adequately. That’s the time you need to get acquainted with company processes, codebase and workflow.

@black-kite @black-kite yeah I understand the weeks if not months. It's my first dev job dealing with production code that's going out to clients that's not just some basic website. At first I was like why does it take someone months to know what they're looking at. I now know why.

When I started I felt like the biggest imposter ever. I didn't have any qualifications and the company only hired people with masters degrees. They were trying out something new with me. I had self learned a lot of things before getting that job and that's what helped me. I never put forward my ideas because my thing was "if they haven't thought of that already, then it's a stupid idea", but eventually I got them into doing IaS and became the expert in CloudFormation.

4 years later, I still feel like an imposter as I move up but I seem to be doing OK. I still have a lot to learn with business things and making presentations for clients but ill get there.

@cmarshall10450 thanks for your insight! I have had to ask for a lot of help. And I understand asking questions is how you learn. And I try to figure things out on my own every time before I ask a question. I guess feeling like an imposter never goes away lol.

That's nice. I'm so much glad to know that you are already passing 3 weeks there. I also have an intention to start working as a developer. Basically, I would like to launch my first website online soon. I found a website builder at a very cheap price https://sitecreator.io/ Besides, it is easy to use, more affordable and reliable at the same time.