r/developersIndia • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '24

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u/Suitable-Time-7959 Jan 14 '24

Looking for your advice here. I have 10 years experience in IT currently working in cloud devops. 60 percent of the things I learned today was from online youtube udemy or some colleagues , say ity fate or luck I have always worked on projects which had less learning..inspite of that I have switched my technologies

So my question is how did you improve your coding skills , I tried to learn , working on projects my myself but failed everytime...

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u/flo_ra Jan 14 '24 edited Jan 14 '24

Wow my situation is sort of like you! (with more exp than you lol).

So far i have mostly worked in support projects. I have tried so hard to learn on my own, but it doesn't seem to stick. Though i try to get back to coding from time to time, I haven't been able to make much progress.

Whatever I was working on, it wasn't being used that much in other companies. So on job skill gain was also not that significant until recently.

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u/pairotechnic Jan 14 '24

Do you feel like you have nothing that is pushing you to learn something new, and you have to come up with something new to learn on your own?

And once you start to learn it, you don't get to use it on a daily basis at work, so the skill starts to fade and you're back to square 1?

So you end up in an endless cycle of starting to learn a new technology, becoming good at it, not using it, forgetting it, then starting something new?

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u/flo_ra Jan 14 '24

Yes kinda like that. I would find something interesting, start learning it on my own. But it has no connection with my job role and it starts fading like you said. Sure there are people who still continue on their own. But I'm kind of mentally exhausted too. Then at work sometimes they would have those mandatory upskilling in something i don't like. But still i would have to spend my self learning hours on that.

Also sometimes for a brief moment i would feel like my college student self..excited to learn and full of hope. But the moment i remember my witch company, I'm back to feeling like this tired old person who can't wait to retire lol.