To improve my poor communication skills, I decided to share some random thoughts on this blog as well. (I am pretty sure almost no one will see it though.)

About Work

Recently, I left my previous employer. I had been stuck on boring projects for a while. The most painful thing was, I couldn’t learn anything that I was interested in and I couldn’t see myself growing into anywhere. Despite the fact it was a great job for lots of people, I felt like I was killing my career and I decided to quit.

Fortunately, my interviewing process was quite smooth and I received offers from all the companies I ever interviewed with. Among all the offers, I chose the one that was the most interesting and challenging for me.

After a long time of waiting, I finally started my new job this week. All the orientations, onboarding, and all the technical meetings were happening at the same time. A little bit overwhelming. Especially when you were not familiar with the infrastructures or the codebase, but you had to attend meetings discussing projects and write code fixing issues immediately. It was a little tiring but also very exciting.

The most exciting part was that I found my teammates were extraordinary and the things we worked on were challenging. I found there were tremendous opportunities to learn and grow. It was something I had been looking for ever since my first job. I know I have been a little bit laid back and I am not up to pace with my teammates, but I hope I can adjust my steps quickly and follow everyone else in the team to quickly learn and quickly evolve. I don’t know how things will go but I will try.

About Life

Quarantine is annoying. I don’t feel uncomfortable about staying at home because I am more like an indoor person. But I do think it does impact my health. I could feel my immune system was slowly breaking down.

Based on the suggestion of one person I admired, since last week, I have been waking up early and doing exercise in the morning. It was almost two weeks now. I hope I can keep it up. (maybe not this weekend as I cut my finger and cannot take a bath).

Other things bothering me were: 1) not sleeping well, always waking up at midnight, and playing with my phone for 1 hour. 2) drinking too much coffee. It hurts my stomach. I should stop using that K-cup machine. 3) getting fat. Here we go again.

I have been watching lots of movies and cooking a lot during the quarantine. I think I really should find another hobby for myself. Maybe guitar.

Also, I am really really really bad at managing my money. I feel like I am losing tons of $$$ and falling behind in my friends.

(Okay, the writing is getting more and more random, unstructured, or unreadable as I am more sleepy. I am going to bed now and hope I can have something more interesting to write about next week.)