Can't believe I'm finally doing this!
I've always wanted to write a blog and create a tech YouTube channel — I think having a blog will have to be enough for now.
A little background for you
Well, my name is Rodrigo. I'm a recent CS graduate, and honestly, I'm just trying to understand where I fit in all of this.
I've always done a lot of things during college — organized events, created personal projects for the CS community at UFCG (which is the university I graduated from), and even joined a handful of partnership projects between the university and different companies.
It was great, don't get me wrong. These were amazing experiences. But by the time I reached my final semesters, I thought I had everything figured out. I knew how to get into projects, how to organize events that really worked, and I felt like there was nothing left for me to do. I thought, "I had done it all!"
But later I came to realize I was actually just tricking myself.
I got tired
I thought the feeling I had could be defined as "wholesome" somehow — like I had done everything, and now my journey was just maintaining what I had achieved.
Unconsciously, though, I was fooling myself so I wouldn't have to learn anything new. I joined projects doing things I already knew, or things that required the least possible effort to learn.
I just got tired of everything, I guess.
I ran out of fuel — stopped learning, stopped creating, stopped doing exactly the things I always said I loved about CS.
But not anymore!
So what's this blog for?
Now, almost a year after graduating, I realized I want to rediscover what I really like and find myself again in this career. I hope to get back to learning new things, challenging myself, and trying to solve daily struggles with technology — and hopefully, land a job at a company I like (just a hint for my next post 👀).
This blog came to me as a first step on that journey, like breadcrumbs along a path I want to create for myself. So if I ever get lost again — which will probably happen — I can look back and remember why I started and where I wanted to go.
That’s why I’ll use this platform to document and share the things I learn and the insights I gain along the way.
Hope you’ll stick with me on this journey.
Xero
Top comments (4)
Good luck!
omg thank u! I wrote this post thinking nobody would see haha Thank you for the support!
There is a famous singer I really like.He is like my idol.He once said:
"Do something!".That one thing just hit me!
From that day I started to practice to make it a habit: "keep doing something!"
I just got started in my journey, but really, even with a small amount of work we can experience that "hard work pays off"!
That's it! Thanks you for the support man! <3