Journal

20 Jan 2022

TIL
General

It’s a new year! And I haven’t updated the site in a bit.

TIL

I spent this morning’s deep work session studying networking. You’re probably thinking “what?? how in this point in your career are you barely studying networking?” The goal here is to get three certifications in a single day because at this point, one is no longer enough for me. So I’ll get 3 “easy” ones. “Easy” as in, I should already know this and I shouldn’t have to spend a considerable amount of time preparing. The three certifications I’ll be going for are:

GCP Professional Cloud Network Engineer
GCP Cloud Digital Leader
HashiCorp Terraform Associate

I thought the Google Cloud Certified Anthos Fellow would be the final cert, but nope. I strive in conditions where I put myself in unfamiliar territory and am near my limit with challenging goals; which leads me to my general update…

General

I have some career goals I want to achieve by end of Q1 2022:

Pass 3 certifications in a single day
Decide how I want to lead, practice by doing, and get promoted to Associate Manager / Staff Cloud Engineer
Share knowledge while dedicating time to build my brand through engineering articles, this website, internal company demonstrations, etc
Successfully lead a team in migrating a client from AWS to GCP
Organize and moderate a meeting on an internal company initiative

Why? I want to see what I can achieve and I want to see what I’m capable of. I’ve truly started from nothing and if I can continue to grow far beyond what I thought my limits were, maybe I can inspire others through leading by example. And if I didn’t accomplish influencing a single person in my lifetime, at least I’ll know I constantly dared myself to try.

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