How to know if I am not advancing in my career and what to do?

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Backstory:

I am a software engineer and I graduated in 2017 at the age of 24 years and I had 3 jobs where I almost didn't see any code.

Job 1

• 1 year and 6 months


• Start Up where I only used a open source project
  and did barely (5%- 10%) of coding with HTML, CSS and JQuery.


• I quit because I was not learning much.

Job 2

• 10 months


• Big company where I was styling applications created by former employees using CSS and sometimes Python for small features.


• I quit because of the salary and because nobody from my team knew web development and I was looking for a little mentorship.

So for Job 3 I accepted a "Junior" Java - Web development job for the same reason that I wanted a mentorship and the payment is great but this position is horrific I see 0% of code and only run tests manually all day.

Problem:

It gave me a little crisis reading stories of people starting to work on large projects with cool frameworks and good guidance at the age of 18 or before and me who started working at 22 feel that I haven't made any progress to my career.

I believe that I came across these jobs because of my location.

So I applied to nice positions in other countries but of 50 applications 50 were rejected without even having an interview so I applied to remote positions but I had the same result.

Recently I started taking some courses to be able to create a portfolio and get to be accepted in a remote position.

My questions:

• What can I do to avoid this kind of jobs?


• What can I do to get a job abroad? (I have permission to work and live in the EU).


• How to measure my progress as a developer and compare it with other people?


• How to boost my career and not be ignored in my applications?

I have to make a small section to mention that my family is very well placed economically so if one of the answers involves money it is not a problem.

One solution of mine was to re-study my career in a decent university in the United States, but I think that apart from taking me 4 years, I feel it is an exaggerated action.

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Backstory:

I am a software engineer and I graduated in 2017 at the age of 24 years and I had 3 jobs where I almost didn't see any code.

Job 1

• 1 year and 6 months


• Start Up where I only used a open source project
  and did barely (5%- 10%) of coding with HTML, CSS and JQuery.


• I quit because I was not learning much.

Job 2

• 10 months


• Big company where I was styling applications created by former employees using CSS and sometimes Python for small features.


• I quit because of the salary and because nobody from my team knew web development and I was looking for a little mentorship.

So for Job 3 I accepted a "Junior" Java - Web development job for the same reason that I wanted a mentorship and the payment is great but this position is horrific I see 0% of code and only run tests manually all day.

Problem:

It gave me a little crisis reading stories of people starting to work on large projects with cool frameworks and good guidance at the age of 18 or before and me who started working at 22 feel that I haven't made any progress to my career.

I believe that I came across these jobs because of my location.

So I applied to nice positions in other countries but of 50 applications 50 were rejected without even having an interview so I applied to remote positions but I had the same result.

Recently I started taking some courses to be able to create a portfolio and get to be accepted in a remote position.

My questions:

• What can I do to avoid this kind of jobs?


• What can I do to get a job abroad? (I have permission to work and live in the EU).


• How to measure my progress as a developer and compare it with other people?


• How to boost my career and not be ignored in my applications?

I have to make a small section to mention that my family is very well placed economically so if one of the answers involves money it is not a problem.

One solution of mine was to re-study my career in a decent university in the United States, but I think that apart from taking me 4 years, I feel it is an exaggerated action.

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Backstory:

I am a software engineer and I graduated in 2017 at the age of 24 years and I had 3 jobs where I almost didn't see any code.

Job 1

• 1 year and 6 months


• Start Up where I only used a open source project
  and did barely (5%- 10%) of coding with HTML, CSS and JQuery.


• I quit because I was not learning much.

Job 2

• 10 months


• Big company where I was styling applications created by former employees using CSS and sometimes Python for small features.


• I quit because of the salary and because nobody from my team knew web development and I was looking for a little mentorship.

So for Job 3 I accepted a "Junior" Java - Web development job for the same reason that I wanted a mentorship and the payment is great but this position is horrific I see 0% of code and only run tests manually all day.

Problem:

It gave me a little crisis reading stories of people starting to work on large projects with cool frameworks and good guidance at the age of 18 or before and me who started working at 22 feel that I haven't made any progress to my career.

I believe that I came across these jobs because of my location.

So I applied to nice positions in other countries but of 50 applications 50 were rejected without even having an interview so I applied to remote positions but I had the same result.

Recently I started taking some courses to be able to create a portfolio and get to be accepted in a remote position.

My questions:

• What can I do to avoid this kind of jobs?


• What can I do to get a job abroad? (I have permission to work and live in the EU).


• How to measure my progress as a developer and compare it with other people?


• How to boost my career and not be ignored in my applications?

I have to make a small section to mention that my family is very well placed economically so if one of the answers involves money it is not a problem.

One solution of mine was to re-study my career in a decent university in the United States, but I think that apart from taking me 4 years, I feel it is an exaggerated action.

job-search career-development work-experience

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Backstory:

I am a software engineer and I graduated in 2017 at the age of 24 years and I had 3 jobs where I almost didn't see any code.

Job 1

• 1 year and 6 months


• Start Up where I only used a open source project
  and did barely (5%- 10%) of coding with HTML, CSS and JQuery.


• I quit because I was not learning much.

Job 2

• 10 months


• Big company where I was styling applications created by former employees using CSS and sometimes Python for small features.


• I quit because of the salary and because nobody from my team knew web development and I was looking for a little mentorship.

So for Job 3 I accepted a "Junior" Java - Web development job for the same reason that I wanted a mentorship and the payment is great but this position is horrific I see 0% of code and only run tests manually all day.

Problem:

It gave me a little crisis reading stories of people starting to work on large projects with cool frameworks and good guidance at the age of 18 or before and me who started working at 22 feel that I haven't made any progress to my career.

I believe that I came across these jobs because of my location.

So I applied to nice positions in other countries but of 50 applications 50 were rejected without even having an interview so I applied to remote positions but I had the same result.

Recently I started taking some courses to be able to create a portfolio and get to be accepted in a remote position.

My questions:

• What can I do to avoid this kind of jobs?


• What can I do to get a job abroad? (I have permission to work and live in the EU).


• How to measure my progress as a developer and compare it with other people?


• How to boost my career and not be ignored in my applications?

I have to make a small section to mention that my family is very well placed economically so if one of the answers involves money it is not a problem.

One solution of mine was to re-study my career in a decent university in the United States, but I think that apart from taking me 4 years, I feel it is an exaggerated action.

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