{"id":58,"date":"2019-12-31T04:57:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T09:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slewicki.com\/wordpress\/?p=58"},"modified":"2019-12-30T16:58:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T21:58:06","slug":"2019-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slewicki.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/12\/31\/2019-retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2019 was a year with many things happening at once, with the major change being that I had left my job of 7 years. This brought along fears of not being up-to-date with the current programming skill set. Up until my departure I have been working with C++03 and boost 1.61. While this allowed me to stay somewhat current with <strong>shared_ptr<\/strong>, <strong>recursive_mutex<\/strong>, and <strong>for_each<\/strong> loops. With my time freeing up and taking on new jobs, I was able to play a bit of catch-up with <strong>unique_ptr<\/strong>, <strong>move semantics<\/strong>, and <strong>lambdas<\/strong> with C++14\/17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my previous post <a href=\"https:\/\/slewicki.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/05\/does-having-a-senior-title-actually-mean-that-youre-a-senior\/\">https:\/\/slewicki.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/05\/does-having-a-senior-title-actually-mean-that-youre-a-senior\/<\/a> I mentioned my worry about if my years as a developer actually meant anything since interviews would shut their doors at me. Some would state that I was behind in my programming knowledge, while others would ask complicated logic questions to be solved within a certain time frame. This led my morale hitting an all time low, but luckily I was able to get a chance and show what kind of an asset I can be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you find yourself in a similar situation where interviewers keep closing the door at your face, work making you feel stale, or just feel like you need a change but don&#8217;t know where to start. Try and find a few minutes a week to brush up on something to help advance your career. If a significant other or kids are involved then chances are that you will most likely be foregoing some sleep in order to push yourself, but there is always a way to help improve. Try a side project that helps solve an issue you have using a language or framework that is relevant to your career or interests and just keep pushing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s rough out there, but there is always a little glimmer to help show that it can be better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 was a year with many things happening at once, with the major change being that I had left my job of 7 years. This brought along fears of not being up-to-date with the current programming skill set. Up until my departure I have been working with C++03 and boost 1.61. While this allowed me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slewicki.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/12\/31\/2019-retrospective\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2019 Retrospective&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slewicki.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slewicki.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slewicki.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slewicki.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slewicki.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slewicki.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/slewicki.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slewicki.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slewicki.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slewicki.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}