| Feeling good about oneself is obviously very personal. From your post it seems that you're mostly satisfied with your flow. So your motivation is a key for the adjustments that you're seek. If your motivation is about advancing in your career (getting noticed), then it's somewhat specific to your workplace. What's it there that gets one promoted? Overwork? Yes-man? Report athletics? Plain year count? Either way, being junior you need some feedback from your supervisor, both to show your progress and to gauge the expectations. There's probably a yearly review system in place, if not yet. So setting one own goals is a good way to prepare for a future review. In a kind of 'conveyor' style of workflow where you just draw tasks from the stack it may be harder to see the larger project scope. But it's still there. Your department/team may have commitments, e.g. to reduce the bug backlog, to deliver features for integration. Basically, it's business goals, larger than just a personal churn. Once you understand how to contribute to the team value, you can decide about how much is your fair contribution. |