Here's how you can future-proof your IT career.

Someone said "The main sauce of a great developer is the mindset that s/he can learn ANYTHING. Have this, and you'd be unstoppable." I agree!

Key to Success -> Keep Educating yourself ! Learning is an absolute need in today's fast pacing world. Thanks to the Internet we have countless platforms to learn from. while we routine work with our current skills - we need to keep ourselves relevant in IT by learning new tech stacks , new ways of working , learn on the job , learn from Peers & Leaders - not just technical learnings but improving on soft skills , people management is equally important.

Networking plays vital role where we grow beyond our immediate circle. Specially in IT we interact with various stakeholder around us while at work. Networking helps to build those great connections and relations where there is an exchange of Visions, Interests , Ideas of similar areas or even outside world . Authentic professionals connections contributes in each other's growth sooner or later. Also its one of the powerful way to be aware of what's going on around.

While we are keeping ourselves aware of latest trends and technologies - Mastering specific areas makes you stand out from the crowd. while most of IT professionals doing the routine BAU activities - Specialists/Experts are those who drives the projects. Its good to understand what we enjoy learning - which stream we are passionate about - what's the future of those skills , How much efforts we are ready to deep dive into it - Getting to the root of any topic gives us that non shaking confidence and such expertise are always valued in organizations.

Its not only about IT , Be it any area - only learning does not help - how we apply that learning - hands-on plays more role than that. Continuous contribution show case what we say we know is what we are delivering with high standards and exact outcomes. Working in existing systems - improving the outdated practices, code, optimization , innovation and from design until go live there comes various stages where we get opportunities almost everyday. Also to follow the passion in the world of technology we can keep building , developing our own projects which helps proving ourselves independent to the job we are doing and role we are on .

Disciplined habits of relevant learning -> building creative solutions while we are also observant and improving on our soft skills - with these practice any career can be future proof !