At my first office job I was able to script away a lot of my work. But...it was my first office job and while I had the skill, I didn't know how to sell myself. I didn't know what to study or work on to move forward yet. If I had to do it over, I would have introduced myself directly to more people in that department and learned their stack to get some direction. I would have tried to convince them to make room for non-senior devs.

I did try to move up, but I talked to all the wrong people who couldn't see the value in my skills.

I ended up getting an entry-level programming gig somewhere else.