DHIT - 3 Years Strong
Pros
PROS 1 - You can work full time or part time remotely 2 - You learn how to survive a fast paced, high volume, high quality work-life 3 - Your Salary reflects not only your worth but your potential 4 - You go beyond your own subjective limits 5 - Calls with customers from Devs to Admins, providing industry guidance 6 - Direct insight and involvement in the SDLC process from start to finish 7 - We sing happy birthday, as an entire team, for everyone's birthday 8 - You learn about so many new and existing technologies in the industry 9 - You get mutually beneficial professional development 10 - You learn how to "eat a elephant"...from the tusks to the tail then go jog EXPERIENCE AFTER 3 YEARS The reason I love this job, more than any other job, is because this was the very first Software/Tech job I pursued after completing the Operation Spark BootCamp in New Orleans. I pursued for months! I pursued like a cheetah in the wild, running at full speed, just to really get in the door because like every job before, once I was in, I knew my curiosity, customer service and persistence would take care of the rest. I had only just been introduced to VBA using Microsoft Office Suite and my BootCamp experience was the gateway into Front End Web Development. My real niche ended up being Cloud Solutions via AWS and Azure Management, Architecture Design and Implementations. From there, I was able to become proficient at Powershell, Custom Solutions to solve everyday workflow issues as well as begin my journey with C#, JWT's, Government and Industry level Certification Requirements and overall documentation. My 2nd niche was APIs, from creating my own using C# and node.js to using Postman to build collections that talked to Amazon Polly for text to speech or OpenAI's API to utilize the Natural Language Processing of ChatGPT's LLM. Keep in my mind, I started as a QA so the growth here is no joke, lie or hyperbole. My 1st year was the toughest by far at any job. It's a lot to get used to and if you can't or don't keep up, you become the weakest link in a very intelligent and powerfully constructed chain. This job will expose how you communicate, if you communicate, what you are capable of, how you respect and perceive management and how you hold yourself accountable. It's the last part of that sentence (accountability) that many who do not survive, have the absolute most trouble with.
Cons
1 - You sink or you swim. It's a con because you've let yourself down if you sink 2 - Not as many holidays as other jobs 3 - You need to be really comfortable with being a self starter
