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What I learned from a $1000 mistake

 Recently I read a Reddit post that was posted on the subreddit r/cscareerquestions. It was posted by a junior developer from the U.S, who travelled across the country for his very first job. In the first week, he was given access to the production DB (But why?). With some false judgement from his side, everything went into mayhem. Long story short, the production data was gone...poof, just like that. A hefty price for a mistake from a junior dev. The guy was fired, and the company said they will take legal actions against the fellow. I am not supporting the junior dev here on his mistake, but in a world, where we celebrate every single minute of success, why don't we ever hear about failure stories much? Failure is the best teacher in many ways, isn't it? I like to share my failure story from my very first company, and how I made a database error that cost my company around $1000. I was working on my very first project back in my first company. Let's say for privacy sake t