Ask HN: What to focus on career-wise as an inexperienced professional

Hi HN,

I'd like to hear your opinions on career development. I don't want to limit this conversation to sofware engineering/IT in general, so feel free to comment no matter your field.

To start, I've summed up some of my research for software engineering. Some things are more clear cut, others heavily opinionated:

- Learn as much as you can, try to have fun working, have at least x% of your waking day as quality leisure time, and don't burn out.

- Just get more experience

- Do side project work

- Contribute to popular open-source code

- Work at a big, well known company

Looking forward to your input!