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What I've learnt is to avoid the hype and trust your gut. Don't go with the flow, the 99%, you'll get nowhere.
The content of that website is something very meta and I'm writing it since 2006. I thought only robots will read it. This makes me think secondary values are more important than the day job you do and think is the most important.
I think what I learned was, don't spend seven years on the next project :- )
It's the very first app to ever launch as part of a musical and yes I realize how ridiculously "Silicon Valley" this is :-)
I didn't quit my job.
My biggest accomplishment is that I did quit mine :) I had to take a vacation to interview full time. That finally did the trick and got me the offer that let me jump ship. Also, practice not shitting on your current company. It's really hard to dial in the story about why your leaving without making yourself sound disgruntled.
>practice not shitting on your current company
Will do.
Growing up, I had never had interest (or natural ability) playing sports. Like many here, I'd prefer tooling around on computers, reading, etc. Likely, this became a self-fulfilling prophesy about "not being a sports person".
Well last year, after some thinking of - "if not now, when? When I'm 40?" I went to a gym, bit the bullet, signed up, bought 10 hours of private lessons for squash (first racquetball, but I switched immediately after trying squash once). It is probably some of the most fun I've had in years, maybe decades. Met so many great people, actually feeling fantastic shape for thr first time in my life.
I'm 34, and am actually a "sports person" now. Laughing even saying it in my head. I've used this achievement/habit also to become more of a morning person (by deliberately scheduling games with people at 7 or 8am), and also to do different activities at the gym (e.g. high intensity interval training group classes; running, and even some weight-lifting). It's even propelled me to think more about the food I'm putting into my body, cook more, etc.
If you have never heard of squash, check it out. It's intense (1000+ kcal per hour), easy to learn, low risk of injury compared to other sports, and is often cited as one of the healthiest sports out there. It's tons of fun (even if you're terrible), has a nice long and rewarding learning curve, is very strategic (the chess-like aspect of it appeals to my technical brain), and again - just tons of fun.
A trusted technology friend passed on the advice to try it to me, so I'm passing it on to you all! Try some squashing!
Example: https://www.projectcredo.com/wsf246/the-best-research-on-ant...
Source: https://github.com/projectcredo/projectcredo/
To be honest, it's the first notable project that I've shipped.
I learned that I have a lot to learn, even if I'm comfortable with the stack. It's interesting balancing the migration between what we know right now and where we want to be. For instance, jQuery -> Vue -> SPA (?) + API.
We're also learning Docker, testing (frontend and backend, and CI / deployment. We've got a long ways to go, but I think if we're patient, we can figure out a solid foundation.