Copygrammer

Things to learn this year:

1. Understand deeply about data governance and compliance
2. How to mitigate risk on data and infrastructure
3. Improve “design sense”
4. How to create awesome videos

What do you want to do this year?

It’s not finding job.

You have plenty of jobs searching for you.

It’s not about just money either. You rejected a few with way bigger monetary compensation.

To find something that you will say: interesting.

Life is about a journey. Process of self-discovery if you will.

Or maybe the right word is… nearly one year.

I stopped working 9-5 on 16th March 2021.

And I started working 24-7 on 17th. Hah. And I wrote this post on 8 February 2022.

Enter the world of entrepreneurship. Maybe it’s not the right word. I think the right word is I work as a freelance guy. Instead of having one boss, I have multiple bosses (clients).

Freedom. But freedom means a lot of things. Freedom to be rich… and the freedom to be uncertain.

Certainty is not always an option.

There is a good month. There is a bad month.

Where everything is not constant. And sometimes people pay early. And sometimes, late.

It’s scary how scary it is. And now I understand why some biz gurus suggested that do not do crazy things after you have a kid and settled down.

You have no idea how turbulent things are.

Maybe that’s how I learned best. By trying.

Alright. Time to brush up my resume. See what’s out there and contribute my skills as an employee.

From startup, to bank, to corporate world, to one’s freelancing gig… and now into the world as an employee again.

It’s good to live as many lives as possible. At least you learn.

Right now, I do a) business development, b) project management and c) programming. This is quite a new role to me. Previously I am more focused and rarely do things outside of coding (I am using programming and coding interchangeably today).

Actually I am quite frustrated with this. If I am focused on coding, it means that I can show my work in terms of screens created or problems solved.

But for project management and business development, you can’t show much except the business you bring in and the gantt charts you’ve created. Since I am doing those three at the same time, my “show of productivity” are divided into three and since it’s hard for human (me) to be in the flow to work, actually the amount of code I generated have dramatically reduced compared to the previous 3 months.

This is something new to me.

And it’s a good challenge.

I learned a lot on how to budget (time and money), how to do the business side of IT (I have created tender as well) as well as to juggle these tasks. The higher you go, the more you have to manage it properly or you will succumb to busyness and not productive.

Let’s do more and learn more this year.

What’s the best way to start a new year for a geek other than coding at night? Tonight I practiced coding in Python by tackling a problems that I got from Project Euler’s archives. You can view the first 2 problems I solved in my Github.

Since it’s already a new year, so what’s my wishes this year?

Well, I have some wishes such as:

1. I wish to build and have my own simple SaaS running
2. Make Makna.online and Kokotiam self-sustaining
3. Take care of my body and my mind better
4. Create a Programming Course. I haven’t decided which language yet though (PHP? Laravel? Vue? React? Or Python? Swift? Java? Or something else?)

Anyway, let us all wish for a better future ahead! 

Happy New Year all!