Not sure why I am writing this post.. By the way, I have no idea why do I write every time. Just to quench that inner thirst I write. Moreover some days end up being so so memorable, either because of some happenings or some thoughts which run through my mind, that I feel desperately to make an attempt to write about them in this blog.
Today is one such day. Some things are really really happening. And yes, it in turn is making me happy. I am happy to say that time is ticking very very fast. This week is one such week, where I not only did I learn some stuffs, but also started applying them.
One such thing is a change in attitude. I know it sounds ridiculous. But yes its true, may be it took close to 6 years of work experience ( including 1 year out of India experience) for me to learn how to change my attitude towards a particular thing.
All these years since I started working, when ever an issue comes up, I was always wondering,
1." what the f^& is this, how much ever we do, we still end up short of target ?? "
2." f%^cking issues will suck the blood out of us.
Somehow, though I love to code, sometimes, I still ended up being unhappy, because of these issues or because of some other reasons, like unawareness or unpreparedness for a new technology.
So I always, (mind you) always ended up cribbing. Sorry to admit this, but its true, I crib a lot. In the last few posts, you can find my cribbology / cribpost. But this week was considerably different. Considering the fact that, I have a clear cut goal of what I need to do, I am a lot more happier and seriously it shows. My goals for the first half of the year 2011 are pretty pretty much clear.
Since I am kind of contented with my decision, happy about my goals for the second half of the year 2011, I am doing things with lot more passion. Or you can put it like, I am happy at workplace.
Its been almost 3 weeks, I am sleeping too much everyday, and I do not regret it. For the first 7 months over here, I used to sleep late, get up early, and there were 4 - 5 occasions when I could not sleep whole night. I would be awake till 4am trying to catch some sleep, then doze off till 7am, get ready and leave to office. But now I sleep around 11pm and wake up at 8am. It does help an extra hour of sleep.
And regarding the change of attitude I learnt about this week, yes, here it goes. As I previously mentioned, whenever any issue used to crop up, I used to end up cribbing about something or the other.
So this week was full of issues, one or the other especially relating to code. Since I was a lot more happier these days, I suddenly gave a thought, instead of issues coming to me, I would rather run towards issues. Though I did not end up running from desk to desk asking my team members for issues, I thought let me put up a brave face to all these issues instead of just saying " Not again "... I did it. ( I mean it).
Frankly speaking, it worked, I do not know how to put it, but at this moment in time, if I want to tell you something, it that, after all these years, I have finally managed to change my attitude towards issues, problems, new technology, or whatever,.
And instantaneously I feel the enthusiasm to learn lots of new things, solve few more issues, read about new technology and apply to solve existing problems. You wont believe when I say, I am so excited, I feel like throwing away all the code I have written and then re-write everything from scratch. ( though I cannot do that, because it has undergone so many cycles of testing.. lol ). But yes, I am happy. Its late than later.
This is what a change in attitude can bring. I am sad to say that, it took me so much of time to actually put it into practice at workplace or wherever... All I can say is reading a lot and lot of inspirational blogs off late has really really, brought about a change in me. We actually need to apply it. There is whole lot difference between reading and applying... I feel all these years, I was actually reading and reading about them, but never applied to this extent. Yes, applying is a whole lot different than reading...I wish I realize sooner about loads of other things as well..
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: Long post, but I do not intend to confuse anyone
I should have written this post yesterday but never mind, better late then later.
Yesterday, was trying to make a build out of a huge huge code base, with lots of unknown stuffs. Failed miserably a couple of times, got latest code from source control, tried to build and failed again. Tried to copy the working folder from friends machine, still could not copy due to some error. In the end had to make another attempt to get the code from the source control ask for a bit of help from my friend, then reading carefully each and every line of error message, trying to figure out what went wrong, I could find out the missing files, download them separately. With an hour extra at office, I could figure out what went wrong and finally got the build up and running before I left for the day. And yes, it all happened because of a change in attitude. If not, I would have either waited for monday to ask for seniors for help or would have gone for the shortcut, ie copying the whole code from friend's machine. But this exercise was fun. It really opened me up..
Cheers once again
Today is one such day. Some things are really really happening. And yes, it in turn is making me happy. I am happy to say that time is ticking very very fast. This week is one such week, where I not only did I learn some stuffs, but also started applying them.
One such thing is a change in attitude. I know it sounds ridiculous. But yes its true, may be it took close to 6 years of work experience ( including 1 year out of India experience) for me to learn how to change my attitude towards a particular thing.
All these years since I started working, when ever an issue comes up, I was always wondering,
1." what the f^& is this, how much ever we do, we still end up short of target ?? "
2." f%^cking issues will suck the blood out of us.
Somehow, though I love to code, sometimes, I still ended up being unhappy, because of these issues or because of some other reasons, like unawareness or unpreparedness for a new technology.
So I always, (mind you) always ended up cribbing. Sorry to admit this, but its true, I crib a lot. In the last few posts, you can find my cribbology / cribpost. But this week was considerably different. Considering the fact that, I have a clear cut goal of what I need to do, I am a lot more happier and seriously it shows. My goals for the first half of the year 2011 are pretty pretty much clear.
Since I am kind of contented with my decision, happy about my goals for the second half of the year 2011, I am doing things with lot more passion. Or you can put it like, I am happy at workplace.
Its been almost 3 weeks, I am sleeping too much everyday, and I do not regret it. For the first 7 months over here, I used to sleep late, get up early, and there were 4 - 5 occasions when I could not sleep whole night. I would be awake till 4am trying to catch some sleep, then doze off till 7am, get ready and leave to office. But now I sleep around 11pm and wake up at 8am. It does help an extra hour of sleep.
And regarding the change of attitude I learnt about this week, yes, here it goes. As I previously mentioned, whenever any issue used to crop up, I used to end up cribbing about something or the other.
So this week was full of issues, one or the other especially relating to code. Since I was a lot more happier these days, I suddenly gave a thought, instead of issues coming to me, I would rather run towards issues. Though I did not end up running from desk to desk asking my team members for issues, I thought let me put up a brave face to all these issues instead of just saying " Not again "... I did it. ( I mean it).
Frankly speaking, it worked, I do not know how to put it, but at this moment in time, if I want to tell you something, it that, after all these years, I have finally managed to change my attitude towards issues, problems, new technology, or whatever,.
And instantaneously I feel the enthusiasm to learn lots of new things, solve few more issues, read about new technology and apply to solve existing problems. You wont believe when I say, I am so excited, I feel like throwing away all the code I have written and then re-write everything from scratch. ( though I cannot do that, because it has undergone so many cycles of testing.. lol ). But yes, I am happy. Its late than later.
This is what a change in attitude can bring. I am sad to say that, it took me so much of time to actually put it into practice at workplace or wherever... All I can say is reading a lot and lot of inspirational blogs off late has really really, brought about a change in me. We actually need to apply it. There is whole lot difference between reading and applying... I feel all these years, I was actually reading and reading about them, but never applied to this extent. Yes, applying is a whole lot different than reading...I wish I realize sooner about loads of other things as well..
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS:: Long post, but I do not intend to confuse anyone
I should have written this post yesterday but never mind, better late then later.
Yesterday, was trying to make a build out of a huge huge code base, with lots of unknown stuffs. Failed miserably a couple of times, got latest code from source control, tried to build and failed again. Tried to copy the working folder from friends machine, still could not copy due to some error. In the end had to make another attempt to get the code from the source control ask for a bit of help from my friend, then reading carefully each and every line of error message, trying to figure out what went wrong, I could find out the missing files, download them separately. With an hour extra at office, I could figure out what went wrong and finally got the build up and running before I left for the day. And yes, it all happened because of a change in attitude. If not, I would have either waited for monday to ask for seniors for help or would have gone for the shortcut, ie copying the whole code from friend's machine. But this exercise was fun. It really opened me up..
Cheers once again
Everywhere same dude, people crib a lot whenever issue comes, that includes me. It is good that you have realized it is wrong...
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