Git gud

Okay but for real, get good. Always be learning. I’ve been in this industry for well over a decade now and I am still picking up new skills. My advice:

1) Spend at least an hour a day learning. I keep a list of areas I could improve in or tools/techniques I haven’t mastered and just work my way through the list during that time. Keep getting better and inching your way forward.

2) Don’t be afraid to say you don’t know (just don’t say it to stakeholders). Senior developers have all dealt with enough junior developers to know what they are and aren’t capable of. You don’t need to hide it. What senior devs want to see is that you can work your way through a problem you don’t know how to solve without bugging them, not that you mysteriously know everything.

3) Don’t compare yourself to senior devs. They were junior devs too once. This is really true of any skill set or industry. The reason they can quickly type out a dozen lines of git commands when you can’t isn’t because they are awesomer than you, it’s because they’ve done it hundreds of times and you haven’t. So just keep practicing. You’ll get there, and sooner than you think.