Level 3: Year in review: 2017
Hoping to make this an annual thing - let’s look at 2017!
Pure stream-of-consciousness, sorry guys!
It was my first year of:
- without real resolutions
- being employed and with no school
- no debt over my head
- having to figure out what I wanted from life
- really focusing on improving my technical chops
- getting a bonus
- going to a paid-for tech conference
- altar serving at a funeral
- playing speedpoint in ultimate
- playing in an ultimate league
- getting enough sleep, lel
- physiotherapy, and it literally changed my life
- working on a proficient team, learning real design
- understanding the difference between Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Amazon engineering and industry engineering
- writing my first program in Java + Spring Boot
- travelling across Canada on the longest
journey ever - being asked to be part of a bridal party
- being asked to be the best man
- asking a man to be my best
- sizeable charitable donations
- got an e-reader yay
- didn’t rip my Christmas gifts on Christmas - actually forgot about them
- getting into road biking!
- got my first AmEx card
Some key events that stick out to me:
- my pursuit of learning Cantonese truly teetered off to the abyss
- transitioning from devops to front-end to full-stack engineering
- family getting a new
car - wedding engagement
- combining my finances with my
- weightlifting PRs
- improving at ultimate and doing bookends, the first definition!
- spiritual direction and really tackling my weaknesses and inner
- decided against continuing with my P.Eng designation
- ongoing wedding planning
- all the hours with my niece
- finishing the Catechism of the Catholic Church
- stopped trying to churn money with PerkTV (it just got too hard)
As they say, it was pretty lit, fam.