![]() Check again, because it’s hidden.ĭid you know on average, people spend between 2 to 5 hours a day on their phones?Ĭan you imagine if you used all the time to learn a new professional skill? In six months the results would be astonishing. ![]() Never feel there’s no time after work to do new things like learning new skills, new languages, team building events, reading. It helped a lot.Īmid my bachelor’s, I was working out, hanging out with friends, travel, finish all my work duties in time and well, being part of tech events, reading, learning, playing guitar, and so many other things. It was starting to feel natural being able to find out time to do a new thing.ĭisclaimer: A big thanks to James Clear and his work. The firsts weeks were not easy, but then I started feeling the change. I had to define priorities, manage time, organize and define the near future. I had to change, to become something else. I accepted the job offer and got accepted into the university too. I had no answer back then if it was going to work out. How could I work as a software engineer while doing a computer science bachelor? And also have time to learn new work-related topics, and hang out with friends? When I first started to work, I was one of them. How many times have you heard someone complaining they can’t do something due to missing time? Lesson: Asking is not showing weakness, is showing strength. Probably I wouldn't be in my current company working with my awesome coworkers. I started to be able to finish every functionality or product I was assigned, in time.Īfter four and half years, I bet my life would be completely different if I didn't have that conversation. I was learning so much, meeting new people. In just a matter of weeks, the results were astonishing. Since then, I lost all my fear of asking, all the fear of showing I didn’t know. I would avoid it as much as possible that fear, and then, he would help me approaching those engineers “ without availability”. He knew I had potential, but I was holding it. He noticed I was afraid of asking, showing I didn’t know. We had a deep conversation, almost like a father to a child conversation. In my mind, at the time, asking would give the wrong idea about my skills to all those skilled engineers with more than 15 years of experience.Īs you may predict, I took way more time than I needed to finish tasks, and sometimes in the wrong way.Ī few weeks later, a business analyst from my project asked if I had a minute for a small chat. When I first started to develop my first functionalities, I had a lot of questions, a lot of doubts.Īsking was an option to avoid. It was a scary and exciting moment in my life. When I first started my first role as a software engineer, I already had some knowledge from my high school, but nothing compared to the usual work you face in the professional world.
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