By: Zachary Hite
12/3/2022
So yeah time to own up to my prior self.
So previously I tried to make the commitment to getting two certifications. CCNA and a CompTIA. I have not completed either of these. I am going to proceed with the why in a moment, but first want to acknowledge the fact that I understand despite my reasons I am about to list I fully understand that if I had been committed enough that I could have managed to accomplish these certs despite the hurdles my personal life threw at me.
So here in list form (I love my lists) are the reasons that I got “side tracked” from certification study.
- Moving (we downsized to a smaller apartment our extended family owns to save on rent)
- Renovating (That apartment needed about 2 months of renovations before moving in)
- Baby (needed to take him during the night time the moment I got home to give his mama a break)
There are about a million other little things that came up in my life and work but those are the big ones.
So what could I have done differently, well in hindsight I could have maybe done non-hands on learning in my commute and maybe found an audiobook. I could have probably pulled late nights throughout various points of the last year but I didn’t.
So now what am I going to do? Am I going to continue to try for those certifications? Well my current situation is that I am having to attend to family matters still. I still am trying to do woodworking and have some article/videos in mind for that. But in terms of my certifications I am being required by my job to pursue an AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification. So that is going to be on my docket for the next 3 to 6 months.
In addition, I am pursuing coding on the side mainly C# and a bit of Python. My (admittedly early) New Years Resolution is that by then end of 2023 I want to be able to be at least double the skill of where I am at now. Which shouldn’t be hard since I am barely scrapping the foundations. Also in 2023 I need that AWS Cert to meet the requirement my job. I think anything more then that might be a bit ambitious and so I am going to keep it to those too and keep some of my other goals in the wings if I feel that I can take those on in the future.
I do feel like logging my thoughts and processes in some fashion does help me stay centered and ” on mission”. I had a stretch where I went to journaling (the 18th century called and wants their pen and paper back) and that helped greatly with the life priorities I had to focus on at that time. So my goal is also to journal here more often.
Sorry to unload…