Spend a lot of time here on this site just reading. Seriously consider taking any advice to heart even when it's painful or it feels wrong. There are a lot of cats here who already made the trip and all its incumbent mistakes, and perspective adjustments, and they're willing to help you skip as many of the hard knocks as you want to skip.

When I got "senior" in a programming job title the first time I almost told them to downgrade me because I know so many here whose skills easily trump mine. It's not humility, I just finally got past the simplicity of Perl -- because it is on the surface so simple and facile -- to see the tracts I didn't really have a handle on. It turned out I *was* the senior Perl guy in the office and a lot of it was just from design patterns, practices, and habits I picked up here.

In reply to Re: how to become senior programmer? by Your Mother
in thread how to become senior programmer? by Anonymous Monk

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