Full Stack Journey 063: Protecting Your Time And Other Career Advice With Tracy Holmes

Hearing about some of the lessons others have learned during their career journeys can be helpful; in fact, that’s something we’ve done quite a bit here on the Full Stack Journey podcast! We continue exploring career stories with Tracy Holmes. She shares lessons she’s learned on an IT voyage that includes engineering, data centers, and developer advocacy. You can find her just about anywhere with the moniker “tracypholmes”, like Twitter or GitHub.

Tracy and Scott touch on topics including:

Career and technology adjacencies
The role of “learning how you learn”
How it’s important to sometimes say no
Using your work space to enhance your strengths
Maintaining integrity over the course of your career
The importance of breaks—breaks in the day, but vacation breaks, too
Using appropriate communications methods

And what are the lessons? Well, you’ll have to listen to the episode for all the lessons, but here’s one for free: “No one will care about protecting your time more than you will.”

To find out more about this and other career lessons Tracy shared on this episode, have a listen!

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