Tracks are good. Until they aren’t.

You are emerging from your studies and found a nice position as a new engineer at a firm of your liking. The money compared to broke student life is great. Hopefully you are saving some. There’s excitement about the new phase. You finally have a chance to exercise your talents without being evaluated (or so you think, but that is a different topic). Yet it feels like you have been assigned to projects where you are not a fit. That do not play to your strengths. That are not what you envisioned before being hired.

Are you stuck in the wrong track? What should you do and when?

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