Hey Reader, I got a question for you.

Do you remember the first time you got your job as a developer?

Do you still remember the feeling of anxiety and confusion you felt?

“What the heck am I doing? Am I doing this right?”

You are excited to start a new role but you don’t feel very confident.

Let me tell you - I felt the same too not a long time ago.

I felt the same kind of uncertainty back then.

The agony of not knowing what to do eats me inside.

Here is my story:

I am a dedicated and diligent developer who takes my work seriously.

I always give my best effort and excel in taking prompt action, maintaining consistency, and delivering high-quality results.

I have a systematic and organized approach to my tasks, ensuring efficiency in my work.

Despite my strong work ethic, I acknowledge that there is room for improvement.

That's why I seek additional help through courses.

I believe that these courses will help me reach my ambitious standards more quickly, allowing me to further enhance my skills and abilities.

In the early stages of my career as a programmer, manager, and senior manager, I faced various challenges. Starting from scratch in each role required me to learn and adapt.

I was very good at what I was doing because of this habit of continuous improvement.

But that was during the time when I used to be a developer.

It all changed when I was promoted to become a manager.

As I transitioned into a managerial role, I noticed that I lost some of the instincts I had as a developer.

The gut-feeling. The smoothness. The confidence.

All the things that made me shine as a developer were lost (not entirely, though).

This was because the skillset is just different.

This is a common experience when shifting responsibilities from hands-on technical work to overseeing a team.

I went from writing codes to talking to stakeholders about their vision.

From managing codes and software to managing people.

There was a bit of a mismatch of work experience.

Back in my early days as a developer, there was a time when an application went down.

It caused a major production outage and our CTO got involved.

He stand beside me and observed as I tackled the problem.

He was worried about the outage but I was in my zone.

I was super confident to look at the web server code to find and fixed the issue in less than 10 minutes.

I knew I would solve whatever was causing that downtime.

I was using my intuition to guide me through troubleshooting, pinpointing the problem, and resolving it.

But after becoming a manager, I lost that instinct.

It was a different set of responsibilities.

I had to learn how to manage my devs.

I did not want to micromanage them with all the little details.

I did not want them to do things that I did not like as a developer such as fixing non-critical production issues after hours.

But I needed to think differently as a manager.

Moreover, I was extremely good at technical items but needed to learn to step back and let other devs take over tech decisions.

It was all new to me.

But luckily, I did one thing right - I never stop learning.

I keep finding ways to improve.

There was a day when our CIO was supposed to present our SharePoint-based intranet at a big conference.

But our SharePoint went down.

I will never forget that day when I was very calm and had 3 different groups leading the fix:

• My Devs
• Our infrastructure team
• Microsoft support engineers.

And I had the Microsoft top guy on my cell phone to ensure we fixed it in time. We did it, and our CIO presented that day.

Suddenly, it all clicked for me.

I started to catch up with the new role.

It was difficult and challenging.

But it was worth it.

My point, every time you start something new, you miss the instinct (gut feeling).

My way to build that instinct is to live with the work, challenges and problems long enough.

This might be the problem you will face when you get into a new role.

But remember {first name}, you only overcome this by gaining more experience (or getting help from the experienced).

I am lucky to also get some helping hands when I was feeling lost at the time.

It surely builds intuition and confidence over time.

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That’s a wrap!

Your friend,

Vinod.