I got my first job!

So, I got my first job as a backend developer. And it seems that this is a great success, for a junior programmer who has no professional experience. What if I told you I quit in two weeks? That's exactly what happened.

How it started?

First, I will tell you how I came across it. About three months ago, I created a resume in the constructor and started sending it to various job search sites. One day, I accidentally noticed in the mail in the "Spam" tab that I received a reply from one vacancy. The vacancy was about backend development. Required skills: Django, DRF, and Docker. Nothing special. In the test task, it was necessary to create a chat API (you can see the code here https://gitlab.com/mezgoodle/test-project). After a successful test task, there was an invitation to a conversation with the team leader, and after that, live coding. The questions were interesting, it's not just what types are in Python. There were enough questions about Django ORM, so I advise you to learn it well. At live coding, there was a task related to working with lists and dictionaries. The main thing was to show your thinking, the way to solve the problem, not necessarily successfully.

I'll skip joining Slack, Jira, and so on.

Start of work

The next stage was the start of work. The first problem that appeared was that my laptop, purchased for training, could not cope with the project, especially with raised containers in Docker. I later fixed this problem, but the first signal was already there.
The first tasks were not difficult at all, because the project manager did very wisely, gradually pouring me into the project.

Difficulty

But what exactly is the problem? Before that, I got used to the fact that when I do a project, everything usually works out and problems are solved by researching on the Internet. Everything is not so easy here. I felt responsible and that I should do everything successfully. And accordingly, when something did not work out, even if it did not concern me, I became very depressed. And so after two weeks, I decided that it was better for me to quit my job.

Make a note of it

So, what are the most important conclusions I want to tell you? If you have your first job, then be prepared that you will not get anything done. And that's normal. No one succeeds immediately. So be persistent. And remember that your health is the most important thing.

What am I doing now?

I started using ClickUp to create a working environment for myself and improve my projects. I cleaned my GitHub and left only the essentials. I started playing chess regularly, solving problems on codewars, and going through two topics from the roadmap.sh a day.