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by anon50118810 1311 days ago
Are you currently working as a junior frontend developer? If so, your goal should be to become more valuable to the place where you're working now. You want to build up a reasonably long tenure at your current job, show a history of promotions and raises, and impress your coworkers enough to establish a professional network.

Ask your manager or senior coworkers what you should be learning if you're not sure. You should be trying to become the owner of multiple parts of your employer's codebase, which is a good sign that you've moved up from junior to mid-level or senior.

This may sound counterintuitive but you need to trust that excelling at even the tedious parts of your current job will open doors for you later on to let you actually do the exciting things you're interested in.