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Discussion on: Is it common for developer to loose passion to learn new things ?

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scroung720 • Edited

TL;DR Finding competition
I feel you. I think that I wasted a couple of years like that feeling that something was wrong. I just saw weeks passing by just doing the minimal of what I needed to do and nothing else. Eventually I was the guy who was taking technical decisions inside the company I was working for at the time. Working with CRUDs projects over and over again.

After some months, I felt sick of this situation. I told my boss that I wanted to quit, they offered me anything ($$$) to stay. But that only just worked for 6 months more. I just quit but still I was feeling that something was wrong. I moved to another city then another city. I found a job where there are a lot of people better than me. Then I realized that I still had a lot to learn.

I started working with them these guys were crazy 20+ years of experience working 10 hours a day and studying 5 hours daily. Then I saw them solving problems in minutes or seconds. That for other very competent engineers it took days or weeks. They seemed to know every possible command in Bash and Git from memory. I know it is a crazy life style but they inspired me to be better to be professional.

Since then I realized that I was choosing to live like a real professional. I realized that I was not a professional that the majority of people are not doing their best at their jobs. Very often developers do their minimal effort and when something went wrong they blame others.

For me to be like them I need to read all those Software Engineer classic books, read the specifications and official documentation of the technologies that you use. Write about programming, go to hackatons, have side projects, create open source tools, being a mentor. They are the kind of person everyone wants to work with because you learn a lot from them.

I think they make me understand that I was in my comfort zone. They make me realized that I was wasting my time and there is a long path to be a professional. Just because someone is paying you for do programming that does not mean that you are doing it well.

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Nitesh Sawant

Thank you for sharing your experience 🙂. its indeed motivating. And yes I too aspire to be professional and acquire qualities like you have mentioned. Can you please tell us more on how you managed both Job & Learning ?

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scroung720 • Edited

I created a system to optimize my performance it is really complex but it combines pomodoro technique with study techniques. I am going to write a post about but right now I am creating a platform to implement it.

Right now, I just try to learn 4 to 5 hours and work 7-8 hours daily.

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Nitesh Sawant

Okay.. I am excited to try your platform.