[cyberpunk]

This is all solid advice, I would probably add though that in your 20s you might want to set a time limit of a year and half to any one job, as soon as things get comfortable you should be looking for something new.

I had a lot of different jobs in my 20s and they all helped me become a better engineer, if I had stayed at one of the first ones (which was probably the most fun I had at work) then I wouldn't be where I am now..

Alt; land a gig at a consultancy or something doing some presales engineering stuff, you'll do an insane amount of weird things there for lots of different clients but have the security of a longer term position I guess.

[zlast]

Curious about your experiences as an early developer myself, any way to contact you?

[cyberpunk]

Not really, I like to keep my HN account sep from reality. Happy to reply on here though :)

[zlast]

No problem.

What different roles did you do? I'm a software engineer (new grad), and have been thinking of switching roles to learn more, i.e sales engineering. How did you make the transition?

[cyberpunk]

I started out as a C dev, then moved to ops, then consulting (infra, etc -- pre cloud), then devops style work (embedded with dev, cloud ops, automation etc), spent a while doing presales for a consultancy setting up CI/CD stuff POCs..