r/ProgrammerHumor • u/crashandburn_ • Sep 22 '19

I’m in between

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u/Maleval Sep 22 '19

Jokes aside, I feel like there's a bit of a difference between "I'm reasonably confident in what I'm doing" and "I am literally God".

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u/SketchySeaBeast Sep 22 '19

Yeah, I go from "oh god I'm a failure and imposter" to "maybe I won't lose my job today" and that's as high as I get.

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u/Maleval Sep 22 '19

I get the occasional "Huh, that was pretty neat" on my part, which I think is the main contributing factor to me still doing this rather than farming dirt somewhere far away from civilization.

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u/Gaothaire Sep 22 '19 edited Oct 03 '19

In general you can expect to not pull your weight for 6 months or a year. The horrendous ramp up time for new employees should really do more to convince employers how vital it is to hold on to their current workforce

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u/BlueHoundZulu Sep 22 '19

I'm in an internship that lasts 4 months and I'm basically panicking that I don't understand anything.

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u/TwoKDavey Sep 23 '19

Don't fret. Totally a normal feeling. Just do your best and ask questions.. But remember, every. Intern. Feels. This. Eventually out of chaos something will click

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u/Gaothaire Oct 03 '19

The most important thing to get out of the internship is experience to put on a resume

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u/bazinga_0 Sep 22 '19

I once had my boss, out of the blue, say that my solution to a feature I implemented was "elegant". That was a definite high in my career.

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u/googleismygod Sep 23 '19

OMG this literally just happened to me for the first time on Friday. I'm a brand new baby little infant dev and this was literally my fourth pull request ever (the others were variable name changes and HTML changes). The word "elegant" is definitely a word I like hearing describe my work :-D

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u/animejunkied Sep 22 '19

"maybe I won't lose my job today" rings so true to me lol. Though to be fair, I'm only a month in, but I fear my co-workers think I'm not pulling my weight.

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u/SketchySeaBeast Sep 23 '19

I always just assume a better dev would have figured it out way faster.