10 months ago
With all the time in the world, will you be able to accomplish your goals? Will you be able to be disciplined enough to be able to get all your work done? Will you achieve all that you want in all of those interests and hobbies? Will you be able to push yourself as far as you think you can? Maybe it’s time to find out.
10 months ago
If you read any news or blog site today, you will know that all of our jobs are gone. If you are sitting in a classroom right now, maybe in your fourth year, ready to get your first job, it is apparently gone, and there is nothing left for you. The degree I graduated with from university is far from what I do today, where the jobs at the time were not there, so I looked elsewhere. Where you start, where you are, is not where you have to end up. But it won’t come easily, you’ll need to work
10 months ago
Conferences are not training. You can travel and go to a training course where they deep dive you on a topic for one week. Maybe you are there with a colleague or two, but you are not there with thousands of people, all in one class, all learning a topic and struggling through labs. This is good because struggling to do a lab with a thousand people would be daunting on a good day. Conferences are many things (as already gone through) but they are not training, they are learning. Different audiences, different topics, different opportunities, don’t sign up for
10 months ago
Conferences are a great opportunity to connect with past and former, colleagues, meet new people, and get an overview of new topics. There are some conference that will deep dive on 2 – 3 core topics but generally, they are a firehose of information coming your way. The locale is different and a great opportunity to catch up with colleagues, pick everyone’s brain without work surrounding you, and just overall learn about what does and doesn’t work in the team and what you can do moving forward. I haven’t been to a conference in a long time, but these are
11 months ago
Over time we accumulate stuff. And it’s on you to determine what of that stuff is valuable. You can keep it all, but then it might be too much to look at or you can reel it in and focus on just what brings you Joy. If it brings you Joy, keep it, if it doesn’t, ask why you have it. Each adventure we take on, we garner more stuff, only because from each adventure we want a memento of what we did, what we accomplished, and what it brought to us. All Stuff isn’t bad, but if you can’t
