Tip 1: ask!
Perhaps the first and most obvious piece of advice is – don’t be afraid to ask. Asking questions is an important skill, one of the most useful in the future, in my opinion. By the way, you can ask not only your direct colleagues in the project / type of activity, but also colleagues from related areas: testers, managers, analysts. Sometimes knowledge gained by accident turns out to be the key to understanding more serious problems. Besides, human experience is the most valuable thing; many things cannot be learned from books. Over time, an understanding of this comes.
Tip 2: write it down!
Have a thought about what you can do in the project? Save. Have an idea of how you can improve your skills? Write it down. Then you can revise these notes and learn something important, or maybe understand that you have already achieved something. In times of crisis, such “save” help to remember why you chose what you are doing at all.
Tip 3: get inspired!
One more thing: find non-financial motivation. When a person decides to “enter IT” for the sake of relatively high salaries, without being interested in the field as such, it is very noticeable. There is nothing wrong with finance, but it shouldn’t be the only driving factor. If the eyes do not light, then no zeros in the work book will be able to light them.