Done with mediocrity, hate that word!!!!
I am done with being mediocre my whole life, did my schooling from a very low-rank school, graduate from a second-grade college in CS, Masters's from an ok type college. Joined a job long ago and was hired as SWE but again worked on internal Tooling, VB.Net, MS Access DB, and building out DLLS wtf, click and do the job for the team. Switched jobs in search of better career prospects and landed in the Analytics BAU role, again clearing off someone's shit & writing stored procedures in an alien language ABAP. Moved to States and started as a QA Automation engineer, happy for a while that pay got improved but my knowledge got drained, whole day writing scripts in Java, Selenium, etc, changed multiple jobs, and again landed in the same roles now in iOS Mobile test and automation. I wanna see a better version of myself, what shall I immediately do? I want a 180-degree turnaround, I know there is no magic wand but I am done with this mediocre mindset, I wanna hit it real hard. I want to be a real SWE justifying my education, my career growth, and of course for my family too :-) TC: 130k base + 12k bonus (annual payout) + 0 RSUs - Fintech mobile QA automation engineer role #career #growthstalled #stopmediocrity #noNonsense
Cool story bro
nah bro, wish that's a story.
Eat well, do regular exercises and spend time in social circle for next 100 days. Then think about a plan for yourself, you would be in much better condition.
yeah, I am off to my home in about a month, after covid taking off for almost a month and I gonna be meeting lots of my friends, Damn I need that for a long..
180 lifestyle swaps are very difficult depending on the type of person you are. What I think at least, Generally: 1. Make sure you really know what entails in what you want, and most importantly, the sacrifices that come with it. It's easy to dream about having that kickass result or lifestyle, but you end up padding or downplaying sacrifices (i.e. usually time and WLB). 2. Make smaller changes/mini goals that are puzzle pieces to the change/big goal you want. Consistency is verry important, but easier said than done. If you have a good understanding of the goal, the sacrifices, and a broken down roadmap, then it really shouldn't matter too much which one you pick (maybe start with leetcode/DS fundamentals). Ultimately, the most important is just doing something at first rather than asking "what's the optimal way". Optimization comes after action imo for things like this.
This. 👏
Thanks a lot :-)
LC, educative.io and personal projects that actually utilize those concepts
All my projects are really not so nice they are more on maintaining existing infra etc, writing pieces of a bigger maintenance system. Can you please suggest where I can try to look for some good end-to-end projects, will it help if I try to work on Open Standard projects (https://octoverse.github.com/)
Guy I watch on youtube learned all the graph algorithms and wrote an emulator in JS to show the path traversal ina very nice way. I learned system design and wrote a URL shortener that can process 200 requests on a small VM budget in cloud ($13). Open source is another option but you dont get to show off or design initial architecture and miss actual learnings that will help you in the future as well as inform future interviewers level of depth of your knowledge
Find happiness outside your career. You’re wealthier and more successful than 95% of the world
Yeah I am spending lots of time with kids, recently flew kite, and wifey was telling me that I was running more than the kids hahaha
Good, do that more, and try to find a hobby that brings you personal happiness. Does not have to involve kids or wife. A musical instrument or similar hobby can bring wonders of fulfillment