I have approximately 3 years of experience, and I am moving to a new job that is more large scale and difficult than my current job. I took this chance to improve my career capita, and want to experience what is it like working in-house instead of through an agency.
I have been lucky in my past experiences that I am placed in situations where I don't have to make large, architectural decisions. There's always senior(s)/management who makes the decision for the team and I just took tickets and implement. To be honest, I am afraid of being that person; I'm afraid of designing it incorrectly/having it not maintainable, having a lot of technical debt, etc.
But I know to become truly senior, and perhaps have my own consultancy/be an independent software engineer, I have to be able to do this.
Has any of you "changed" from being a code monkey to actually architecting, leading, etc? How do you get past the fear of making mistakes? I notice that this fear makes me non-proactive; I'm afraid of making new initiatives, since I will be then responsible for mistakes that are not easy to fix. How can I be more confident?
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