If You Only Take Away One Thing
Here’s the most important lesson in this whole book: you need to own your own career, because no one else will guide you. Good mentorship can be wonderful for the .01% of engineers who find it, but in all likelihood, you are going to teach yourself 99% of everything you’ll learn as a professional; great projects may fall into your lap once in a blue moon, but more often, you’ll have to find your way to them yourself. Therefore, the most important tools in your toolbox are going to be personal responsibility and initiative; those qualities are what make you a trustworthy ...
