The IT world has attracted you for a long time, but is it scary to try a new field? Or have you already embarked on the path of an IT specialist and are taking the first difficult steps?
Tip 1: ask!
Perhaps the first and most obvious piece of advice is – don’t be afraid to ask. Asking questions is an important skill, one of the most useful in the future, in my opinion. By the way, you can ask not only your direct comrades in the project / type of activity, but also colleagues from related fields: testers, managers, analysts. Sometimes knowledge gained by accident turns out to be the key to understanding more serious problems. In addition, human experience is the most valuable thing; many things cannot be learned from books. Over time, an understanding of this comes.
Tip 2: write it down!
Have a thought about what you can do in the project? Save. Have an idea how you can improve your skills? Write it down. Then you can revise these notes and learn something important, or maybe understand that you have already achieved something. In times of crisis, such “save-ups” help to remember why you chose what you are doing at all.
Tip 3: get inspired!
One more thing: find non-financial motivation. When a person decided to “enter IT” for the sake of relatively high salaries, without being interested in the field as such, it is very noticeable. There is nothing wrong with finance, but it shouldn’t be the only driving factor. If the eyes do not light, then no zeros in the work book will be able to light them.
Tip 4: play!
It’s useful to turn everything into a game, and it’s not for nothing that gamification is one of the best learning techniques. Let the skills become achievements, the difficulties of projects become levels, and the difficulties on the way become dragons that must be defeated. A banal human excitement is triggered here, and even with this approach, even boring at first glance things become much more fun and exciting.
Tip 5: talk!
It is also good practice to tell others about what you are doing and learning. To whom it is not so important: it may be a younger brother or sister, parents who are interested in what you do there, non-IT friends, or maybe another intern or a newbie. We must try to convey the information as accurately as possible, but simply so that a person without experience roughly understands what it is about. There is a saying: he who thinks clearly expresses it clearly. But it also works in the other direction: having learned to express clearly, a person structures and puts knowledge in his head, and this helps him to better understand the subject.
