The preface
I vaguely remember contacting the Nuggets in 2017. It has been more than four years since this year. In these four years, I hardly wrote technical articles, but more just read. I happened to see the essay soliciting activity of “Summary of 2021 mid-year” of nuggets, so I decided to write an article to end my first half of 2021.
What would the first half of 2021 be in a few words? There are many things to think about, such as: children, new house, time management, logical thinking, team management, Kazuo Inamori, poetry, marathon, confusion, anxiety, reflection, financial investment and so on. At the beginning of the year, I also set up some flags, which are divided into three aspects: career, life and personal. So let’s summarize from these three aspects.
professional
Promotion — the event of the first half of the year. Yes, I was promoted in March and started to have a formal position to manage the team. I was transferred from a technical position to a management position at about the same time. Finally is the ugly daughter-in-law boil became a woman, went to the “small middle”. However, my mental journey was not smooth. After experiencing some things, I began to rethink my career planning and personal value.
The psychological course is happy -> doubt -> lost -> entangled anxiety -> calm. This psychological journey is caused by three major events: first, I was notified that I would be promoted to team leader, a seemingly reasonable and unexpected good news, who would not be promoted to a raise to bring some joy. After being stood up for several times, I began to reflect and found that the current market has changed. With the increase of large factories, everyone has more choices, and the competitiveness of our company has become less strong. Who wouldn’t want to find a company with a better market recognition and a similar salary? I did the same. I remember the reason I came to work for the company was that there were too few options. In addition, I found that some students of similar level can enter the enterprise of similar bytes, so why can’t I? People were not filled, but fire broke out in the backyard — some people suddenly mentioned to leave, and still two, a little embarrassed, began to self-doubt, vaguely feel the difficulties of team management. A few things, let me back to have time to reflect on myself, what do I want? What do you want to do? Is the company doing what I want? Does it still provide a sense of accomplishment? If your current job isn’t what you want, do you need to go out and try?
Recently, I have been in a dilemma, so I chose to stay and continue to engage in management work, undertake some tasks outside the work, and repeat the previous work content. Choose to leave, but also faced with the need to pick up technology, return to the development of the awkward situation, a lot of age, still hope to enter their favorite company? I don’t know who has the answer.
life
The beginning of 2021 was lucky for me. With all the efforts, my wife finally got pregnant, and it was a blessing of god. It has been seven months now, and we will meet in a little more than two months. This road is not easy may only oneself and his wife know.
Another happy event was that in May, the decoration of my parents’ new home was finally completed, and my dad could finally start to sleep soundly.
In terms of financial management, a lot of active operations have been reduced in the last half year, which are all fund and investment (both stocks and bonds). Because the preparation is a long-term investment, so almost no sell, the overall income is not too high, of course, the market volatility in the first half of the year is also relatively large. Stick to the philosophy of buy at low valuations, hold at normal valuations, sell at high valuations.
personal
With the improvement of my cognition, I have been trying to improve my three abilities: time management (GTD), logic and memory since the end of 2020. Therefore, at the beginning of 2021, I continued to do the time management I learned in GTD, which was good at the beginning. I managed work and personal tasks as projects, wrote weekly plans and summarized reflections every week, and made plans and summaries every day. Unfortunately, there are too many projects and it is difficult to stick to them, especially when you are only taking breaks. You don’t want to spend more than two hours writing a summary. After self-reflection, I still have too many things to focus on, and my energy is limited, which eventually leads to problems in execution. Of course, my own summary reflection is more like a running account, real reflection or review is really very little. After several months of understanding and learning about logical ability, only two contents remain: structured thinking (pyramid principle) and mind mapping. In terms of structured thinking, I read some articles on Zhihu and made a summary, which was also put into the memory list for repeated review; After reading the pyramid principle once, I’ve been planning to read it again but I haven’t started yet. In terms of memory, I began to recite poems using the Ebbinghaus method. Since February, I have recited more than 20 poems on and off. Although I can recite them, it is impossible to verify whether my memory has improved.
In 2021, I will continue to run, running between 120KM and 160KM per month at a pace of 510 to 530. In the first half of the year, I completed a full horse and half horse, and achieved PB in the whole horse. On the way of running, I was lucky to make some friends and get a lot of extra harvest.
Where the heart wants, the plain walk
In the first half of this year, due to the reasons of work and family, I started to think about my personal development as a whole. Dissatisfaction with the status quo and fear of future risks, let their own wavering, psychological exhaustion. To tell you the truth, I don’t know why at this particular time this year, it seems to have suddenly clicked, hoping that an old programmer’s final stubbornness will bear fruit.
I saw a lot of people talking about the “mid-life crisis at 35” on my blog, which made me feel a little bit more urgent. Fortunately, there are some positive responses, and many older programmers can still move on depending on their abilities. Accidentally remembered a description of Qi Baishi, also borrow to comfort yourself.
“There is no such thing as doing the right thing at the right time. Living at your own pace. Every moment is your golden age.”
Second half planning
- Prepare for the arrival of the children
- Review well, prepare your resume, and try to get into the company you want (hopefully one of the three).
- Keep reading, writing and recording (technical articles, summaries, life records, moods, etc.)
- Keep running and memory training
- Adhere to the fund with investment operations, learning real estate knowledge
- Improve my cognition of structured thinking and strengthen the use of mind mapping
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