I currently find myself a 40+ unemployed software engineer. I have clear experience, and I think a pretty broad range in both tech and domain knowledge, but I keep running into this one hurdle: hiring managers "need" a particular skill (e.g. Angular) and I've been passed on expressly because while I have a bit of past experience in it and decent experience in a somewhat related skill (e.g. React), I haven't been able to convince them that I really can pick stuff up fairly quickly. So something I just learned in the first 90s of this video is the most important question a hiring manager can ask a candidate: Nerd out on something. Doesn't have to be tech related, and it won't leave this room. Just take me through a rabbit hole. I got to this channel because I'm learning Kubernetes, but I'm also learning wood and epoxy working. I'm expanding my network and security skill sets. I have a whole menu of interesting things I've learned even in the last 3 months, but nobody has even thought to ask because nobody realized how important it was. Even me.
Every time I hear someone say, "Practice makes perfect", I am reminded of a golf instructor that was trying to teach someone how to improve their golf swing. The student used that phrase and the instructor said, "No, practice makes permanent!" I prefer, "Practice makes proficient.", as you can replace a bad habit with a new one over time. It is just harder to do it when you have practiced the bad way over and over and become so proficient that it is now a habit or automatic to do it the wrong way. So, think about this the next time you are tempted to use that phrase.
I appreciate this. I really do. But I gotta be honest. The first thing I locked onto was that the golf instructor was “trying” to teach someone. I thought: “yeah, golf is friggin hard”
Summer 2023, I learnt a new programming language: Go. Then Bash scripting: I know it's old, but I've always been fascinated by it. And I hope I could use Go and Bash alternatively or together to create fun networking tools. And maybe add a web app that would allow guys who don't this languages to trigger a call to them. Happy coding :)
I don't know how I stumbled on this video...but I know for sure that I needed this at this time. I have become very lazy lately and I'm doing nothing other than Python and Python related stuff. I have become very stubborn even though I'm just 21. You don't know how much this 4 minute vid has changed my mindset and I'm sure it will rekindle that love for learning again. Thanks again!
I found, that when I start to remember how I was in school and be open and ask questions, that the information started to stick. I'm over 55 and started an online Full stack web development course in Sept 22, should be finished at the end of the month. I find online both good and challenging, and the old brain has the feeling sometimes of burn out but you have to keep going. I'm finding that there are similarities between some of the languages, which is great to help get started. I started on a Commodore 64. I find Python easier to follow. JS took sometime to get my head around but it's getting there. It's like learning a musical instrument, you're not going to be good if you don't practise.
I learn new things every single day, sometimes more than a hundred things per day. Most of them are forgettable and useless, but I like to think that I learn a tiny bit of information that will be useful for me every week. Maybe a conversation with a teacher, a video on RU-vid or a post on Reddit. Internet is full of things to learn, even though most of those things aren't useful. You just need to know where to search
Like how today I learned that electrons are very round. Will I use that in my day to day life? Absolutely not. Did I find it interesting? Absolutely yes. Will I retain this information? Maybe.
