Once in Life you come to a point where you begin to introspect yourself and you reflect that you have not done anything good lately. What will happen of you.
Last week, I also came at that checkpoint. But fortunately I met someone, who gave my life a new direction. If it wasn’t for her, I wouldn’t be writing this blog. She made me realize that I have not wasted my time but is going through a phase where I am not able to decide upon something. And my mind is lingering upon the varied choices.
When you look back to your older self, what you were a year back and what YOU ARE NOW. This is where a landslide of differences occurs. As for me, I am grateful to myself, that I explored as much options as possible before narrowing it down to one or two. I have been working on these options lately but not with a focused mind. And she made me realize this.
A year back, when I came to IITR, I was completely anew to this bizarre world of technologies. But my seniors told me to explore things before sticking to one. And I took heed to their advice. I narrowed me genre to coding. But coding is a vast field. There is vast field of Competitive Coding, Web Development, Software Development, Machine Learning, Information Security.Thanks to IITR for its awesome internet speed. There are ample amount of online resources to learn from.
I tried competitive, and gave up quite early, thinking that it is not my cup of tea. She made me realize that I hadn’t even touched 0.000001% of that domain. People who get a hang of it, try it for atleast 1 semester with utmost dedication. And I was not one of them. Sighs.
I switched to web development and found it quite amusing. So I stuck to it for more than a semester. I even got a Virtual Intern(Work From Home) in this field. I learned some cool stuff on the advice of some seniors. Starting with langagues to build websites to using frameworks to build web apps. It was fun. I find it very interesting. But my Intern made me realize that I don’t want to do a front-end job ever. So I left the job after 3 weeks. And started working Django-a python web development framework. What else do you want, when you have python. I made some cool things which can be found here.
I wanted to start with Data Science during my vacations but wasted half of my time doing nothing. So, now, after taking her advice, I wish to devote my entire time now in learning Data Science. But I can practise problems on Hackerrank and Codechef, when I don’t want to delve into data. I do some backend work too, because it involves Python(Absolute <3).
This Motivates me Alot!
Don’t be a Jack of all Trades and master of None.