This is something I generally recommend to juniors, which goes against a lot of advice I’m seeing here - spend more time learning if your work is all good for the day. Early on, it is important to ramp up to get to senior as quickly as possible. If you don’t, you risk having trouble if you get laid off for whatever reason and need to ramp at a new job with a new codebase. I generally recommend doing around just under your max focus abilities - enough to push you hard, but not to the point where your mental health suffers.
Once you get to senior, your job prospects will reflect how quickly you got there - the quicker, the better opportunities you get, which has a cascading effect on your entire career.
I have seen junior devs fall into the trap of taking the job for granted, and run into trouble searching for new jobs - you don’t want to be that person.
Once you get to senior, your job prospects will reflect how quickly you got there - the quicker, the better opportunities you get, which has a cascading effect on your entire career.
I have seen junior devs fall into the trap of taking the job for granted, and run into trouble searching for new jobs - you don’t want to be that person.