Career growth Memes

Ah, the classic "career path" in tech—where senior devs push juniors off cliffs with nothing but a cheerful "You can do it!" and some links to Stack Overflow answers from 2011. The gap between "here's your promotion" and "here's some tutorials" is approximately the same as the gap between your confidence during the job interview and your first day actually writing production code. Nothing says "mentorship" quite like watching someone crash spectacularly into reality while you shout documentation links from a safe distance. Welcome to software development, where we don't have onboarding—we have gravity.

Five years of professional coding experience and still googling how to center a div? Completely normal. The eternal impostor syndrome hits different in tech—where yesterday's expert is today's confused newbie thanks to some random framework update. You could be architecting complex systems by day and questioning if you even belong in the industry by night. The cognitive dissonance is just part of the job description they conveniently left out of the offer letter.

The evolution of a programmer in one tweet. Juniors frantically Google "how to implement X" while seniors spend their time figuring out which parts of the spec can be safely ignored. The real 10x developer isn't the one who writes 10x more code—it's the one smart enough not to write it in the first place. Less code = fewer bugs = fewer 2AM production incidents. Wisdom isn't knowing what to add, it's knowing what to leave out.