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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:

Hey! I love your podcast, you have definitely helped me improve my soft skills in my career.

I am a full stack web developer and I have been pretty much loving it. Web development was not my original career plan though, I graduated with a Bachelor’s in Computational Mathematics & Computer Science, and I knew I wanted to be a software dev since working with robotics in middle school. I kinda fell into Web Development from my IT work study job in college.

I have been doing this for 4 years, and I am ready to transition over to applying for Software Engineering jobs. How do I get over this scary feeling of leaving my safety net? How can I encourage myself that I can make this new career transition? There will be jobs I see posted, and I just wanna go for it, but I always get scared at the thought of leaving since it’s just so intimidating, especially coding interviews and interacting with new people, new workplace, etc. What if I end up regretting my choice? Any advice is appreciated!

Thanks guys! I always look forward to your episodes every week - I share your podcast with my fellow nerd friends!

I work at a bureaucratic company where we move fairly slow.

It can take weeks for one of my pull requests to actually get merged. Someone will review my work, I will make some changes, then they will come back some days later with a new truckload of very nitpicky details that they want changed.

This makes me long for the days of me working at a startup where we had no code review, and no testing process, and it’s making me sad.