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Shehjad Ali
Shehjad Ali

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Time to level up as a Developer and a Person

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Do I feel stuck as a developer?

I feel it, in my veins and all. I think that it's high time I have done something to level up my skills. The truth is the type of developer I am is being produced every day by countless coding boot camps. I am replaceable and that is why I feel stuck at the level I am.

What is stopping my growth?

I, me and myself is the only reason that I am stuck at this phase where I feel like I am not growing. I know some stuff here and there but it is still a lot less than my potential. I am lazy and absent while taking action. I lack discipline. Now it's not that I lack the hunger, but I lack the urge to cast votes every day for becoming the person I want to be.

What should I be doing to level up?

Be disciplined and a stone-cold committer. Be an absolute beast and do every day that I am supposed to do. I should be coding every day. Solve at least 2 coding problems. Spend a focused state on my client project. Also, spend another focused state on projects that will increase my knowledge of the domain and expand my horizon.

[note: these blogs are not a self-rant, but more like a self-documentary. I might even create a movie about my life. At this point I feel like I am in the shithole that I am supposed to be at the moment and I am gonna get out of this and prove my worth not to the world but to myself.]

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CallmeHongmaybe

I feel just the same. Time for finding joy in things that aren't fun.

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Shehjad Ali

Struggle should be the new norm. I am realizing that we gotta embrace the masculinity.

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Amna-Qassim

Thanks, I am in the same situation and I need to wake up and start again🙏🏻
Good luck

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Shehjad Ali

More wishes to you King. You gonna be able to do it. All of us are gonna be able to do it. At least we have woken up. Now its time to put in the actions.