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Learning to enjoy the career progression journey

Reaching a management position in the tech industry is hard work. It’s important to remember to enjoy the journey and celebrate victories big and small along the way.
January 23, 2023

Reaching a management position in the tech industry is hard work. It’s important to remember to enjoy the journey and celebrate victories big and small along the way.

Having started out as a self-taught developer, I had to put the hours in to grasp the first rung of the software engineering ladder. Whilst working a standard 9-5 job and raising my newborn son, I would spend countless hours learning C#, SQL, and JavaScript. 

It was tiring. It was hard work. There was a lot of blind faith that one day it would pay off and help me change careers.

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