Hi readers,
It has been way too long since my last post and I’m truly sorry.
I’ve been reflecting on my year of 2018 workwise and some part of it wasn’t so fun and I wanted to share my experience. I have had a total three different employments that year and I went on 35-40 interviews total (phone interview, online coding test, in-person meetings) in 6 weeks. It has been crazy and tiring, but everything work out for the best.
When the year started, I was on a consultant contract, but I really didn’t like it. I was brought in to maintain and add features on a Silverlight application. I didn’t feel challenged and that is what I look for in an employment. I helped them sort it out and helped improving the hiring process by designing a document designed to determine the strength of the candidates and the limits of their technical know-how.
I found an interesting job perspective in a Montreal startup where I was hired as a back-end .NET core developer. On my first week, with the two other new hires, we were asked if one of us wanted to learn and ramp up on React.js & Redux to replace the current two front-end consultants. I decided to become a front-end developer instead and started learning. Since I had no knowledge, I was a bit too reliant on them and that was because I felt out of my depth. In retrospective, that wasn’t the best of decisions. Because I had software engineering and web experience, I then became a full-stack developer, creating the endpoints on the database and showing off the data in an appealing fashion for the end-user. In the end, it didn’t work out. Things happen, it’s life and that’s ok.
By then, we’re in the summer of 2018 and I’m looking for a new place for work after my contract was over. And I found my dream job at Robotmaster. We’re in the field of robotics and we provide an interface to seamlessly integrate offline operations such as programming, simulation and code generation. We deliver error free programs for your Robotmaster is the ideal off-line programming solution for all applications that require CAD/CAM for robots including: trimming, 3D machining, deburring, polishing, welding, dispensing, grinding, painting, etc.
At this job, I found people I can interact with and see as an extended family, whenever I’m not knowledgeable on a given topic I’m assigned on; we’re given the time to grow and learn. That’s actually the key point I love about this opportunity. We can grow in anyway we prefer. I’ve been focused on WPF development and algorithms but I’m thinking of learning the ropes of DevOps in 2019.
Sometimes, we may end up in places we don’t expect to be and that’s perfectly fine. What I’d like to you to remember from my post is to re-evaluate where you are right now and truly ask yourself if you love what you’re doing. I think we owe it to ourselves to love what it is that we do since the work is such a big portion of our lives; it has to resonate with you, otherwise, there’s no point with investing all that time.
Kevin out.
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