I have never felt more like a software engineer in my life than I did this morning

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I have never felt more like a software engineer in my life than I did this morning

I have never felt more like a software engineer in my life than I did this morning. As I climbed down the stairs to put on my beautiful new shoes and grab my hat coat and scarf and dash out the door
I felt like a software engineer
For real - not a fake it til you make it kind of software engineer - but a real one bro 
Why? Because yesterday I looked at a software engineering framework and I finally said - with the aim of getting promoted - 
  • This is what I am good at 
  • This is what I could improve at 
  • This is what my five goals are to improve and get better at it
I know enough about the industry and the work that I can take ownership of it and address my gaps and fill them
I am so so proud of myself I am so proud of myself
It’s not a mystery to me anymore
What are my goals? Well it’s a little bit personal
So naturally I will share
At the moment pending any further revisions from management 
It looks a little like this
  • Improve my ticket speed but in a way that still maintains quality and learning. The goal is to quite simply have more coding time and then this will grow exponentially
  • I want to get code into review quite quickly
  • So that I can get feedback on it 
  • Improve at reviewing other people’s PRs - I am only just learning how to do this as a Frontend dev but I plan to learn loads even from reviewing PRs that other people’s have already reviewed or at least by leaving questions on PRs that I can understand even if I can’t fully approve them
  • Improve my testing
  • Practice testing in general
  • Improve edge cases boundaries and error paths (what are boundaries)?
  • Improve my react knowledge
  • Improve my graphql ability through practice
  • Improve my react knowledge through self study
  • Apply my new found react knowledge to the tickets
  • Spot common react patterns 
  • Improve my contributions to documentation
  • And those are my goals 
    A list of goal setting sheets

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