u/michaelnovati replied ·
Yeah the first job can feel like the summit of a mountain after a bootcamp, but it's really just the first step to climbing an even taller one, and that feeling honestly never ends throughout your whole career.
I usually advise people who are hungry for more to give their all to their job and really do exceptional work. You can accelerate your career and get to a senior level scope of responsibility much faster that way and nothing beats on the job experience to build up those skills.
BIAS DISCLOSURE: there are a lot of things later on to help fill in some of the gaps you might have coming from a non traditional background. I'm the co-founder of a mentorship platform that helps people level up their careers later on and these types of things exist when and if you are ready to make the next jump. But in the mean time I would just take on more work, take initiative, fix a lot of bugs, refactor and cleanup code.
Feel free to DM me if you want to go more into your personal details/situation for more specific advice on what you can do on the job to help grow, happy to share my opinions on that.