Happy New Year

Since it’s New Years Eve and people are making resolutions, but I don’t like making resolutions, I’d rather make a list of all the lessons learned over this past year:

1) Never go into business with a friend. Never go into business with a friend no matter how much you want to help each other because chances are the money will change one of you and your friendship will end up in the dumpster.

2) Friends are great, but family will always be there. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to, but they’re just always there. Depending on what type of a family, for emotional support or to help you with whatever needs you have that they can provide with.

3) Don’t try to do more than you think you can. No matter how smart you think you are or how good you may be, there is always something that you are unable to do. This one was very hard for me to accept with my ego, but it’s a fact of reality. Ironically enough, it’s at that point when you think that you are the best at what you do that something unexpected happens. Yes, you should always try to be the best at what you do, but when you think you ARE the best, you essentially set yourself up for a great fall and also in a way set yourself up to lose purpose of what you’re doing.

4) Live and learn. It would be unprofessional of me to say that it’s okay to make mistakes, even though we all do at times, but the point is to learn from them for the future. Along with that, try to be productive and learn to prevent the mistakes. It’s always better to think before jumping in. A job should be 90% analysis and 10% action, even though in many cases you only get paid for that 10% percent. Let me also mention that bad times will come and the best thing to do is take it slow, be aware of your surroundings, and learn something from it. No matter what the topic is, there is always so much to learn from it.

5) Be prepared to be humbled. Enjoy the times when you feel on top, but consider staying humble because there WILL come a time when you will hit rock bottom and you might want to keep some friends around for support. What I mean by this is don’t depend solely on friends to get back, but it’s easier to move on when you don’t feel alone.

6) Work smarter. Though hard work does seem professional and shows a person’s commitment, it’s all about getting the most things done as best as possible as quickly as possible. Hard work tends to wear you out, therefore smart working or thinking before doing an action, can easily accomplish this goal.

7) Relativity strikes again.  When it comes to development, it’s okay for code not to work the same on ALL systems.  Heck, since each system is different, that’s how it’s suppose to be.  This shouldn’t give you an excuse to give out code that crashes though, so do the best you can with the knowledge of what the majority uses.  There’s no point in waisting more resources for the minimum people that would get affected.

Thank you for reading. Thank you for your support during the past year. I hope you continue to give your support and have a happy New Year.