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No Pay, No Work; Early Career Lessons
Part 3 of my 12-year journey—what my first rocky job taught me about boundaries and value.
Complex business rules that changed frequently Multi-stage application processes with interdependent fields Calculation-heavy rebate formulas Document verification workflows Just a shared understanding that if someone yelled about a file, it was temporarily “theirs.” It wasn’t until years later that I understood how important proper version control workflows were for project success. The small team meant I got exposure to the entire stack: backend PHP, frontend JavaScript, mobile development, and even some system administration.
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