THE SITUATION
I graduated with a degree in Computer Science. Got a job as a developer stayed with the company for 3 years. But my career made a huge 180 when my father passed. I resigned from my job, went back home, and took one odd job to another while developing stand-alone desktop application systems for family members using JAVA and MySQL.
I was happy. I was content. I still got to create.
But last year when the big bug hit, everything just went south.
The layoffs made work a bit more tedious, instead of being a 3 man team, I became a one-man army.
And so the situation made me look back at my degree and curiosity made me want to re-learn development.
THE BIG HURDLE
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Technology advances so much in just a few years. All the things I learned before are irrelevant to today's standards.
I tried to consume as much media with regards to development I can but nothing seems to stick.
I can't even decide what I need to learn first. What framework to use? API? Plugins?
I was stuck. I was stuck in what you call "Analysis, Paralysis".
All the information available coupled with the lack of funds to actually enroll in courses made my progress come to a halt.
THE OPPORTUNITY
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A few months ago while watching a youtube video of Adrian Twarog, he introduced hashnode. A blogging site for developers.
But I never paid attention to it, work already preoccupied my head. I was doing the work of 3 people already and thought I had no time for it anyway. So I bookmarked it and forgot all about it.
Until a week ago he posted a short that there would be a free bootcamp available. So I signed up. And here we are, me writing my first ever blog post of my entire life.
THE ASSIGNMENT
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The Assignment for Day 1 asked us to write more on our journey, our goals, and our motivation for writing.
To be honest, I didn't even get to attend the talk. 😅 By the time I got in everything was over.
So here I am doing this for doing sake. and that is motivation enough for me to push through.
GOALS
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I only have one right now, and that is to find myself a project that I can push through and finish.
Hopefully, I can record every step of that project through this blog and that this blog will push me to learn by forcing me to create content.
I know it might sound simple for you, but for me, it is an overwhelming thing already.
CONCLUSION
So here's to the first step of learning. Here's to the first step of starting anew.
And I hope you guys can come with me, and bear with me, on this journey of learning and discovery.
Thank you to hashnode for the free bootcamp. Thank you to our host Sam Sycamore and our speakers Quincy Larson and Edidiong Asikpo. I may not have watched it live but I will surely watch the replays.
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