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I am starting a new job on Feb hoping to kick-ass there as its my first (official)job after college and months of OSS. I will once again try to learn and use Rust but will fail miserably.
My only plan for this new year is to slowdown on consuming content and subjecting myself to a lot more stress and spend more time outside, taking naps and reading books.
And that makes reading really hard for me but I have gotten books as gifts and really want to read them.
My goal for the next year is just to work fewer hours. Covid pushed my work habit to the extreme, and I need to rebalance. 1. Read more books, less social media/news. 2. Spend more time with my friends. I haven't seen some of them IRL for more than a year. 3. Exercise more, play tennis with my daughter, spend quality time with my kids. 4. Spend more time with my parents. They've become visibly older in the last years…
Are the open source work and the business marketing part of/all of the “work” that you want to do less of? If so, what is your plan for balancing doing less of it while still trying to accomplish those goals?
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How boring.
Eh, I bought a decent apartment in the city and go out partying with friends every weekend. But in terms of needs, I could stop putting in effort right now and live comfortably for basically forever. But I’m still working hard at gaining new skills with the aim of eventually getting something really high level like CTO.
I plan to finish the degree I started, technically, 22 years ago.
I plan to go do things with local (fully vaccinated) friends. I'm not especially social so this is a big stretch for me, but my wife is on board (and then some) so it should be easy.
I hope to sleep well enough that I'll be able to work out every morning. I feel way better when I can work out every day but I risk injury if I work out while exhausted. (And I shouldn't have to do this but it is social media so: no, I haven't found a correlation between sleep quality and exercise for me).
2. Develop mentoring skills.
3. Start to transition away from being a full-time developer to a staff engineer.
4. Create a culture that is highly tolerable of risk and failure.
2-4 are not just work focused but are also family focused. So much of what we do as a family embraces comfort rather than risk-taking. We should do more of that.
I currently teach high school English. There is a great deal about the job that feeds my soul, but my engagement with the work has shifted markedly over the last few years and is starting to impact my happiness, my optimism for life, and my ability to be the husband and father I know I am. I believe it’s time to do something else. Several conversations with tech folks lead me to believe that I would do very well in U…
Many people I know (myself included) are looking less at overall skillset and more for a good understanding of the fundamentals + a desire to grow and stick with a role (ethic).
That is, if you can focus on understanding the core principles of UX/design and show that you can apply those (usually by way of portfolio showing the desires, and therefore your comprehensive of the desires + the outcomes), that means a lot more because most teams realize that hiring someone is an investment and they know that it will take you time to understand how they work, their needs, etc.
Happy new year HN. I am going to figure out new ways in which to apply myself in CS so I can move past the current slump I am in. Not sure if it's burnout I can't recover from or my interests changing as I grow.
Slumps don't last forever, but sometimes the best way out is to reverse out of them and go around!
Tbh I feel like I have done everything I want to do at 23. Now the only real aim left is to make as much money as possible just for the challenge of it.