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I Thought I Had It All Figured Out... Until I Didn't
Can't believe I'm finally doing this! I've always wanted to write a blog and create a tech YouTube channel — I think having a blog will have to be enough for now. A little background for you Well, my name is Rodrigo. I'm a recent CS graduate, and honestly, I'm just trying to understand where I fit in all of this. I've always done a lot of things during college — organized events, created personal projects for the CS community at UFCG (which is the university I graduated from), and even joined a handful of partnership projects between the university and different companies. It was great, don't get me wrong. These were amazing experiences. But by the time I reached my final semesters, I thought I had everything figured out. I knew how to get into projects, how to organize events that really worked, and I felt like there was nothing left for me to do. I thought, "I had done it all!" But later I came to realize I was actually just tricking myself. I got tired I thought the feeling I had could be defined as "wholesome" somehow — like I had done everything, and now my journey was just maintaining what I had achieved. Unconsciously, though, I was fooling myself so I wouldn't have to learn anything new. I joined projects doing things I already knew, or things that required the least possible effort to learn. I just got tired of everything, I guess. I ran out of fuel — stopped learning, stopped creating, stopped doing exactly the things I always said I loved about CS. But not anymore! So what's this blog for? Now, almost a year after graduating, I realized I want to rediscover what I really like and find myself again in this career. I hope to get back to learning new things, challenging myself, and trying to solve daily struggles with technology — and hopefully, land a job at a company I like (just a hint for my next post
Can't believe I'm finally doing this!
I've always wanted to write a blog and create a tech YouTube channel — I think having a blog will have to be enough for now.
A little background for you
Well, my name is Rodrigo. I'm a recent CS graduate, and honestly, I'm just trying to understand where I fit in all of this.
I've always done a lot of things during college — organized events, created personal projects for the CS community at UFCG (which is the university I graduated from), and even joined a handful of partnership projects between the university and different companies.
It was great, don't get me wrong. These were amazing experiences. But by the time I reached my final semesters, I thought I had everything figured out. I knew how to get into projects, how to organize events that really worked, and I felt like there was nothing left for me to do. I thought, "I had done it all!"
But later I came to realize I was actually just tricking myself.
I got tired
I thought the feeling I had could be defined as "wholesome" somehow — like I had done everything, and now my journey was just maintaining what I had achieved.
Unconsciously, though, I was fooling myself so I wouldn't have to learn anything new. I joined projects doing things I already knew, or things that required the least possible effort to learn.
I just got tired of everything, I guess.
I ran out of fuel — stopped learning, stopped creating, stopped doing exactly the things I always said I loved about CS.
But not anymore!
So what's this blog for?
Now, almost a year after graduating, I realized I want to rediscover what I really like and find myself again in this career. I hope to get back to learning new things, challenging myself, and trying to solve daily struggles with technology — and hopefully, land a job at a company I like (just a hint for my next post
