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I choose to invest in myself. I 🏴☠️bought🏴☠️a bunch of online courses on some technical stuff for computers and programming and I'm going to see if I can hack my way to a better job. There is so much to learn and the industry is always change so I'm looking to specialize in one language (C++ to exact) and try to increase the depth of my knowledge and skillset. My scheme is if I get at really good at one thing, I'll be able to do other things okay-ish because I have rich understanding of how the one thing works and how it relates to other things.
One of my big issues is that I struggle with is "you're not worth the effort" mindset, so I'm doing this totally on my own and my hope is that if I can get nice with C++ I can create opportunities for myself through my own skill and efforts (but not in the bootstraps way, more so in the I am good at a thing way). I think back to my eagerness of my undergraduate degree in computer science and how I just ate up every textbook or website I could find on programming. fast forward to now, I don't care about writing good code at work or even care about understanding how anything works, so long as it compiles, and I don't get yelled at so I'm fine. I want to keep that slacker-hacker mindset at work, but I want to get back into the hack into the matrix mindset I had when I initially began. I want to be good, for me because I'm worth being good for.
Also I bought a budget planner so I can track my spending by hand and hopefully get my money up and save for a rainy day.
I also got back into Street Fighter and it I'm re-learning how much I love fighting games, the depth and complexity is so robust and interesting that I feel much like the language programming thing is that if I get hella nice at USFIV I can translate that knowledge of systems and mechanics to any other fighter like something more modern like Guilty Gear Strive.
Overall I'm really happy with upward trajectory in several areas.
If you have any questions regarding programming, I could help you with. If I can't help you with something, that means that you are giving me exercise. So, I urge you to ask me relevant questions.
C++ is one of the languages that I have a few years of non-commercial experience with.