Any Other Name

-

Any Other Name

For the very first time since starting this blog I have writers block. I think it might be time to wind this project down. I have finished the coding courses. And I have learned what it takes to be a real software engineer. In a way the transition has been very quick and in a way the lessons have been agonising to learn. Most of all I think a software engineer needs: problem solving skills, a love of asynchronous work and a good amount of patience and persistence and I have been told that the 15 minute rule for asking a question is the 45 minute rule for me 😅😂

Susanna looking beautiful on bus

I don’t have very much more to say at the moment because I am working well. Problem solving and I am being a good girl - I am always asking myself the next question and debugging the repos by myself and I raised 3 PRs today with zero senior support only pairing with another (albeit very very amazing) dev at my level. I skipped meetings I couldn’t attend. I went to two very big meetings today and did very well. I went to my favourite Japanese cafe for lunch. 

I am going to a dance class tomorrow. I ordered myself a Christmas present on Etsy. I decided not to spend all my money on retreats anymore.

I want to keep on me and being Susanna and being intense and posting sometimes.

But I am problem solving and that is what matters. I am delivering tickets and that is all that matters. Everything else is secondary to that…

I can’t change the past but I know that I have done well and I am happy with where I have gotten to now and I AM DOING IT ALL, FOR THE WIND FARMS… 🥰

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Hello World

-
Image
 Hello from Susanna Codes! Hi everyone,  My name is Susanna and I'm a 28-year-old aspiring software engineer from Brighton! As I type this, listening to music from "Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain" (it reminds me of home, in Luxembourg, where I am from - I'm missing home quite a lot lately!) and look forward to some Irish Cream tea in my afternoon break, I am thinking: How lucky I am that my amazing colleague Rosana helped me out with a plan for my software engineer journey (she directed me to the front-end first). How HTML and CSS would not have been my first languages of choice had I not been guided in this direction, as in my head they were seen as 'less-serious' langages. How done I am with what other people think of me and if other people see the 'front-end' as softer then so be it! Everyone has to start somewhere. I am so grateful to be on this journey, with Codecademy's Front-End Engineer Career Path.  Thank you to Async Brighton as ...
Read more

Yosemite

-
Image
Yosemite I'll never forget the first time I head the song Yosemite by Lana del Rey. I very nearly clicked away.  It was quite near the start of my Software Engineering journey, right near when I start learning the Front-End/Web Development. I was listening to Arcadia by LDR before, maybe twice, and then Blue Banisters came on. I nearly clicked away in the first 30 seconds but I forced myself to keep listening anyway.  I'll never forget how that song has made me feel. It became my song of 2022 even though I only discovered it in November. I can still listen to it every day and get that complete sense of wonder and of awe that I felt the first time that I heard it. That ending of the song is completely amazing, and it just completely just blows me away every time. "Withstanding all the time, changes, and seasons..." - LDR Concise Body Arrow Functions Why am I so bad at arrow functions? Whyyyyyyyyyyy?  Just kidding, I am beginning to get them. But why are they so hard? ...
Read more

Where To Hide A Star

-
Image
Where To Hide A Star I haven’t read this book but I just saw this title of a forthcoming children’s book on the train and so I wanted to write a blog post based off of this as well. The last six months have been… rewarding and fulfilling. I have managed to make all of my dreams come true and to defy expectations,  Sometimes the best place to hide is in plain sight and if you reread all of my blogs over the last six months (all 200 of them) you would know exactly what I’m struggling at work and what was going on. And why. But I’ve managed to overcome most of my challenges. Neurodiversity. Being very new in the field relative to the expectations of the job. Being in a new workplace environment. All stuff which I can handle and I am doing just fine. Because I am amazing and fabulous and I can do anything. I am loving the job. I am thriving. I am loving just getting on with it. I love my work. I am having massive breakthroughs. On Thursday I had what felt like the biggest breakthrough ...
Read more