Debug and Release

This post isn't necessary advocating for dropping out of school  to get your first programming job, but rather a list of things I wish I had a better understanding of before I started my first job as a programmer outside of school (college). Graduating from school; the only time we can wear this cool hat How you view your work We know you are working on homework all the time , but it is different in the real world. You can't approach working in a job the same way as you work on homework in school. At school, the assignments you do are against you; one on one. A duel. In a real job, work isn't simply something to get done, it is means to an end . Other people are now counting on you to get your work done. You become a dependency to others, your team, and the organization as a whole. You become a necessary lynch pin in your job. So that is what a lynch pin looks like If this raises the stakes, good. That's how you need to begin thinking at a rea...