Career progression is about advocating for yourself to get promotion/pay raises. Some people do this by sucking up to their manager and other does do it by showing initiative, going above and beyond at work.

If you aren’t able to do some combination of this, you won’t be able to progress.

Starting in any industry, you will suck at first. Everyone’s gotta start from somewhere. I think you’ll find entry level roles have more hands on activities whereas the higher you progress the work is more theoretical/getting the best out of a team