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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:

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   Hey guys, I\u2019ve graduated with a CS degree 8 years ago, but due to circumstances I accepted a QA job because I wasn\u2019t getting any other offers. Well 8 years later, I\u2019m still stuck in QA and would love to move into development. I tried transferring within companies and applying to developer jobs, but the QA brand is holding me back. Any advice on how I can become a developer when I\u2019m pigeon-holed in QA?

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   Hi folks! I need your wisdom! Please help.\nTLDR: Senior as a Programmer, Junior as a Mobile developer.

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   When I first came to my job as an intern, my manager asked me what I wanted to do more - backend stuff, testing, or mobile development. I went randomly and chose the latter. It became my profile and I\u2019ve grown to really like it. Over the years, life has thrown me back and forth, I\u2019ve been on multiple different projects not related to mobile, so now I can do\u2026 everything? Or rather, nothing.\nI know a little bit about .NET, a little about web development, writing Visual Studio extensions, IoT, machine learning, Unity game dev.. This is good because I can now quickly learn new things, know a lot of tricky stuff, know how to communicate with customers. I have a decent salary and good feedback.

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   But the huge downside to that is that I stayed exactly at the same level of mobile development as I was 3 years ago. I know basic stuff, a little bit of advanced stuff, but I have zero experience in all the \u201c\u201chot\u201d\u201d things like RxJava, Dagger, Kotlin.

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   All the job vacancies I\u2019ve seen require a strong knowledge of something particular: be it Android or iOS development, backend or frontend. I\u2019m suffering from a huge imposter syndrom - yes, I have all the \u201c\u201cgood\u201d\u201d programmer qualities, I\u2019m smart, but I have no advanced or even medium knowledge in anything.\nWhat can you advise me?

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   Huge thanks and\u2026 love the show! \u2764

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