Re^2: Spend time wisely

Thank you. And here is the question. It's is hard for me to decide, what I really like to do. I am attracted towards many things in software as they all look cool. I had been thrown upon the work and I tried to learn, whatever that was required and learn on my own many different things. But I cannot carefully decide what I will like to do in future. As the time grows for me, and changing job market situations doe s not help me. So free-time is sort of my meditation time, to decide for future.

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Re^3: Spend time wisely by Eliya (Vicar) on Jan 13, 2012 at 21:21 UTC
It's is hard for me to decide, what I really like to do. I'm not really sure what to say. If you can't decide, who should? Having total strangers run my life doesn't sound like an attractive option to me ;) Maybe you could use the free time to give each candidate technology a serious try (e.g. implement something non-trivial — but stop after an allotted time) and observe your gut feelings as you go... This way, you may not have become an expert in any one technology by the end of the free time period, but you may at least have arrived at a decision based on personal evaluation and judgement, instead of letting others decide for you. Just my 2 cents.	[reply]

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Re^3: Spend time wisely
by Eliya (Vicar) on Jan 13, 2012 at 21:21 UTC

It's is hard for me to decide, what I really like to do.

I'm not really sure what to say. If you can't decide, who should? Having total strangers run my life doesn't sound like an attractive option to me ;)

Maybe you could use the free time to give each candidate technology a serious try (e.g. implement something non-trivial — but stop after an allotted time) and observe your gut feelings as you go...

This way, you may not have become an expert in any one technology by the end of the free time period, but you may at least have arrived at a decision based on personal evaluation and judgement, instead of letting others decide for you. Just my 2 cents.

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