How much of your social life did you sacrifice to achieve your goals?

[semicko82]

No life dry phone gang over here

I'm over here hating on my friends having fun on social media















Just joking about hating on my friends, but I wish I had more of a social life

 

[Savvir]

I crafted a social life that is in line with progressing my goals. Go out, have fun, drink, meet new people…. AND make money from it

 

[Rosecrans]

Realized everyone around me wasn’t shyt

Once the dead weight was gone, the goals accomplished themselves

 

[Rozay Oro]

No life dry phone gang over here

I'm over here hating on my friends having fun on social media















Just joking about hating on my friends, but I wish I had more of a social life

If fun really worthy when you putting it over priorities?

 

[semicko82]

Realized everyone around me wasn’t shyt

Once the dead weight was gone, the goals accomplished themselves

 

[HoldThisL]

I have no social life and failed most of my goals.

 

[semicko82]

If fun really worthy when you putting it over priorities?

To be honest I think you need a healthy social life or else you can go crazy

 

[Rozay Oro]

To be honest I think you need a healthy social life or else you can go crazy

More ways to have a social life than just turning up. We all need to socialize besides work small talk and have a hobby. Definitely but you will still function if you don’t turn up.

 

[RichYung]

Not much at all. Better believe balance is key… I know folks who “locked in” and they came out of it miserable as hell. They just missed everyone and fell out the loop.

 

[DapMeUp!]

Most of my progression came in lockdown luckily so when I was "locked in" nothing was really going on.

Key is getting a Job/Grind that allows you to be flexible.
Now that I do hybrid work I will plan social life around it to make the most of when I'm not in the office.

 

[IIVI]

Man, compared to where I was financially 10 years ago it's a night and day difference. I've only seen my friends a handful of times the last 10 years. I'm now working full-time in the tech industry having completed my Bachelor's CS degree and recently made the decision to go for my Master's. I lowkey went into grind mode and realized I love the grind. Those hours at 3 or 4 in the morning when it's quiet and I'm learning and absorbing new material are some of my favorite.

I knew somebody who was a very talented musician that eventually decided to go into software as well. Literally the next morning after attending a Grammy's afterparty at a real famous pop artist/singer's house dude started his new job in tech and never looked back. Mans built quite a lot of connections but gave it all up to climb the ladder in another field and eventually became an incredibly good, top-tier software engineer.

 

[semicko82]

Man, compared to where I was financially 10 years ago it's a night and day difference. I've only seen my friends a handful of times the last 10 years. I'm now working full-time in the tech industry having completed my Bachelor's CS degree and recently made the decision to go for my Master's. I lowkey went into grind mode and realized I love the grind. Those hours at 3 or 4 in the morning when it's quiet are some of my favorite.

I knew somebody who was a very talented musician that eventually decided to go into software as well. Literally the next day after attending a Grammy's afterparty at a real famous singer's house dude started his new job in tech and never looked back. Mans built quite a lot of connections but gave it all up to climb the ladder in another field and eventually became an incredibly good, top-tier software engineer.

I'm trying to get into tech also
Any advice?

 

[IIVI]

I'm trying to get into tech also
Any advice?

I'd say go to school if you can. If not, keep grinding on out those projects and grind Leetcode as well. Don't stop learning and expand your current skills. A big reason why I landed my first job was because I talked with somebody about functional programming because I explored the deeper concepts and coded some Haskell on the side. The right person saw that and hit someone with a referral. Personal projects you make will give you some great insights about programming and tech because along the way you'll have to solve a ton of problems and you can talk shop about it.

Another thing people overlook is attending meetups (even online), but either only attend those after you get sufficient knowledge or if you intend to keep showing up, potentially for years (which you'll probably learn a lot from). Contributing to open source kind of puts both of these concepts together. All this stuff shows you're dedicated and not faking the funk.

At the end of the day it's a two step process, you need to make your resume look good (school and/or personal projects) or impress the right people then you need to kill the interview (Leetcode and/or enough experience to talk about coding because of the knowledge you learned building projects). It'll help if you make connections along the way as well and can be done by interacting with other programmers.

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

U really gotta shut off everyone, I’ve been working hard on my CCNA this year, haven’t fukked with anyone and this is the closest ive ever been to knowing the material. Hopefully take and pass by mid june

Same experience with martial arts recently, did biggest leaps when I hung wit no one n trained all the time

 

[semicko82]

I'd say go to school if you can. If not, keep grinding on out those projects and grind Leetcode as well. Don't stop learning and expand your current skills. A big reason why I landed my first job was because I talked with somebody about functional programming because I explored the deeper concepts and coded some Haskell. The right person saw that and hit someone with a referral. Personal projects you make will give you some great insights about programming and tech because along the way you'll have to solve a ton of problems and you can talk shop about it.

Another thing people overlook is attending meetups (even online), but either only attend those after you get sufficient knowledge or if you intend to keep showing up, potentially for years (which you'll probably learn a lot from). Contributing to open source kind of puts both of these concepts together. All this stuff shows you're dedicated and not faking the funk.

At the end of the day it's a two step process, you need to make your resume look good (school and/or personal projects) or impress the right people then you need to kill the interview (Leetcode and/or enough experience to talk about coding because of the knowledge you learned building projects). It'll help if you make connections along the way as well and can be done by interacting with other programmers.

I'm currently in school working on my degree in I.T.
In the middle of studying for Comptia A+ cert