Being a Junior Dev and having a Senior Role

NunoA21 — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 09:13:05 +0000

Hi there!
I'm a Junior developer, right now I have 3 years of experience and, recently, I've been having so much trouble dealing with work.

For context, I work as a back-end developer, being .NET my go to everyday. I have basic GIT knowledge and never worked with DevOps before (CI/CD). I'm working in an API that communicates with another API and provides data for Android and IOS apps.

I was working with a very cool senior dev, with 12 years of experience, from whom I learned a lot. We had a good chemistry and communicated very well.
Some time has passed and two months ago our manager said that he was going to a different project, inside the company. This sounded a big red flag, because they choose him to go, basically, they fought that what he was doing was easy and that another person could do his tasks with no problem at all.

For context, my fellow co-worker had a great impact, and knows the project I'm at. He had some of these tasks that he had to do everyday:

Development;
DevOps (CI/CD) and pipelines management;
GIT management;
Client and other management tasks.

Before he left, I had to learn in 2/3 weeks how everything worked, it was kinda rushed, but I don't blame him, he has done his best to help me.
Right now, I'm kinda in a bad spot. We have had some problems and it seems that I'm not being able to handle all the stuff he was doing, which is pretty normal, but being the way I am, I don't back down that easily, so I try to tackle every problem at a time.

I know that I need to check a problem at a time, but this is a problem I always had, that is focusing in something at a time, because I try to help everyone that comes to talk with me.

At this moment, I'm having a bad time, because I think I'm not able to do anything, and I can't think straight... basically, I lost my confidence.

I talked with my manager the other day, and it kinda seemed to have understood my message, but I think that he still undervalues the importance of the project I'm in and my fellow co-worker who changed to another project.

Kinda messed up situation, I am going to talk to my manager and I'm going to ask for help, because we have resources (people), but I don't know how to talk about this, or how I am going to do my tasks until someone comes.

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Being a Junior Dev and having a Senior Role