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Connected to others
I like to stay within my own world without seeing the outside world. However, I am not satisfied with my own world. Time to break pieces of my barrier and be connected with the outside world.
- Ruanyf’s journal: . Randomly found his journal. I have known him for several years. This is a guy I have admiration to.
- https://www.bestblogs.dev/en: a news platform introduced by Ruanyf’s journal 334.
- and the product webpage https://podcast.zeabur.app/: how does it implement the AI function? how is it completed in a week?
- To learn: Docker, typescript
- : learning programming by a project.
My questions this week
This week was my two anniversary of the current company. A organization change happened in my team. My skip manager who has joined this team over 10 years decided to leave this team and my manager will replace him. Three months earlier, my manager got promoted and one level higher than my skip manager.
I keep asking myself this question since the new year
“What is my final career goal”?
When I first started my career life, my career goal was quite simple, earning enough money and retire early. I left my first job within 14 months. I was able to earn enough money to give myself a decent life, but too much work. Then, I joined the current company, I have earned more money and can satisfy most of my wishes. I have more free time and vacations. I could travel as I want and traveling is not that interesting anymore.
I need to realize my big potential. I feel there is an active career ambition beating in my body. Working doesn’t mean money any more. It means some self-value, some impact to the others, to the world, even to the future generations.
I know it is a very big ambition, but it is real. I have to face it honestly.
Then, how?
AIs suggest to know myself first, finding my own strength and interest. Wow, this is a hard question. I feel I am interested in too many things, music, painting, movies, languages, programming, cooking, etc. My life’s beauty is its diversity.
How to take advantage of the life’s diversity? (No finding yet)
When reflecting the working moments I like, most of them are related with creating and thinking. I enjoy creating or building a stuff with my own ideas. I like a work involving thinking either I can understand more truth underneath or I have insights to improve it. Maybe I can build my ambition based on this.
How much free time is the best for me?
Jump to another finding. I have read somewhere, between two and five hours of free time per day tends to maximize happiness. Well, I feel it this week. No dancing and other activities after work this week. I have over 5 hours free time. Actually I tend to waste most of them by playing minesweeper or staying in online shopping platforms. When I have a more tight schedule, I appreciate my free time more and even being more productive. Controlling the amount of totally free time by finding more meaningful things to do. I think this could be a way to increase my happiness. By meaningful things, I feel it can be related with my ambition. I know I have the action power. For example, last year, I decided to join the Advent of code, I really can insist on doing it. The second week of this year, I decided to start a running training and join a 10k competition. I have also followed the plan since then and increased my 5K time by half a minute in 10 days.