It has been three and half years since I joined my current job. Things have changed a lot in last three and half years. When you join a firm right after your college, you are generally the youngest person in the team. People treat you generally nice, people try to help you learn things quickly, but yes you are treated like a kid at most of the occasions but I am sure most of us won't complain it. When you make mistakes generally people are considerate as you are the most junior person in the team.
This way 1-1.5 year just passes away, then finally you get people in team who are younger than you and now they become the most junior members in the team. As far as you are concerned, well you still are considerably younger than other members in the team and people still keep that in mind yet you are expected to show maturity which you have gained over last 1 year.
Things keep on going this way, you keep on working on generally whatever you are asked by your boss. Off course you are not expected to make mistakes which you might have made sometime in recent past.
This way working you complete your second year in the firm, by this time you are pretty much on your own in most of the things, you become expert at what you do, you are expected to mentor/train new joiners in the team. In some cases new joiners might be assigned to work with you and you become responsible for managing their work along with yours. You are expected to show much more maturity in your work, behaviour. You have to start being involved in all stages of project, you need to interact with all stakeholders in the project. You are expected to put firm's interests on top priority than your own, you are expected to think like an owner and show leadership skills. You are expected to take initiatives on your own.
This way you complete your 3-3.5 years with the firm that is pretty much same time as one spends in graduation and in many ways both 3.5 years resemble.
After 3.5-4 years of learning your ways in a firm a road lies ahead of you which might seem blurry, you might not know what lies ahead of you, you might not know what is going to be your next step which takes your forward, up to this point generally every step can be predetermined but now whatever you do can not be straight from textbooks (or at least that's what I feel as of now).
Anyway, lets see what lies ahead.
This way 1-1.5 year just passes away, then finally you get people in team who are younger than you and now they become the most junior members in the team. As far as you are concerned, well you still are considerably younger than other members in the team and people still keep that in mind yet you are expected to show maturity which you have gained over last 1 year.
Things keep on going this way, you keep on working on generally whatever you are asked by your boss. Off course you are not expected to make mistakes which you might have made sometime in recent past.
This way working you complete your second year in the firm, by this time you are pretty much on your own in most of the things, you become expert at what you do, you are expected to mentor/train new joiners in the team. In some cases new joiners might be assigned to work with you and you become responsible for managing their work along with yours. You are expected to show much more maturity in your work, behaviour. You have to start being involved in all stages of project, you need to interact with all stakeholders in the project. You are expected to put firm's interests on top priority than your own, you are expected to think like an owner and show leadership skills. You are expected to take initiatives on your own.
This way you complete your 3-3.5 years with the firm that is pretty much same time as one spends in graduation and in many ways both 3.5 years resemble.
After 3.5-4 years of learning your ways in a firm a road lies ahead of you which might seem blurry, you might not know what lies ahead of you, you might not know what is going to be your next step which takes your forward, up to this point generally every step can be predetermined but now whatever you do can not be straight from textbooks (or at least that's what I feel as of now).
Anyway, lets see what lies ahead.
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