Not where you hoped you would be? Not at the job you think you should have? Didn’t get through the first interview round? Your certification exam took a slight detour? You can look at these as either setbacks or steps to growth and learning. If you yearn for nostalgia, screenshot them, put them in a folder, forget about them, and revisit them in 3 years, then ask yourself was it a setback or a step…
Everything can and will go wrong. Your plans will go sideways. The idea you had to build on a platform, that platform went bust. What you thought would work, will no longer work. The API interface you are building against will be deprecated in 3 months. You can either rant and rave about the situation you’re in, about everything going wrong, or you can embrace the calamity and chart a new path. Five years ago,…
I have a ton of respect for everything that teachers do. They spend time outside of their day putting together intricate learning plans that are geared towards helping kids grow and learn all within the constraints they are provided. Who wouldn’t want to go on a random field trip when the opportunity presented itself because the weather was snowing outside? But they can’t. And then when the lesson plans don’t click, they need to pivot,…
Writing Unit Tests? Making Lesson Plans? Making Crafts? Writing Code? Deploying Code? Making Food? Building Chairs? Designing Chairs? Then do that, do that thing that makes your heart skip a beat and gets you excited for what is to come next. Do that thing that gets you out of bed in the morning and gets you driving into the office each morning, even if the drive is an hour long. Or better yet, makes the…
The leaving of any job is the hardest part of the job. No matter how long you’ve been there, 2 days, 2 months, 2 years – it’s never easy. There is always a fear that you are abandoning or leaving those behind. You’re not, you’re moving forward, the first step is the hardest toward something new. That’s why not everyone takes it. It’s easier to stay where you are and not step forward. But the…