MY FIRST POST ON MEDIUM
This is how I am going to plan my next 10 years
Introduction:
This is my introduction to you, I am currently unemployed, passioned about Data Science (main profession) and considering writing as secondary/sub profession(hobby), I am not a native English speaker, so it will take some years to improve my writing quality. Honestly speaking after reading medium articles that others wrote I thought it was easy, after writing and reading my post , I come to understand how poor my writing skills are, My situation is like “I wanted to sound smart, but I don’t know how to write good”, similar to JOE from FRIENDS tv series.
I wanted to sound smart, but I don’t know any big words for it — JOE from FRIENDS
I have read articles in medium related to what people have done in their past, like “what I have done in last year, this is what I did in last 3 years” etc. I thought yes lets write a post relating what I have done in last years and started writing after pondering for hours I realized I have done nothing last few years, I mean I have done nothing worthy to write about it or at least my brain is not generating any scenarios to write. My brain told me you have done nothing in the past at least do something for the future. So here I am in the present planning for my future. This resolve is simply not on a whim, this is my conviction for building new career and a better future, because I found what I really wanted to do.
Contents of The Post:
- Introduction
- I Found what I wanted to do.
- Assumed Profession Levels
- My Plan for Next 10 years
- Conclusion
I Found What I Wanted to Do:
My life till now is like a floating cloud passing in the direction where wind is blowing. I have done nothing for myself, I have been sent to school to learn, until my graduation I am still learning, at least from my grades I can confidently tell I am good at what I am doing, but still it is not what I wanted to do. After graduation during covid I got addicted to anime, manhua and manhwas. Although I have wasted my prime time but still, I got fascinated or came to understood different careers, I wanted to become a doctor, surgeon, architecture, mixed martial artist, actor, singer, dancer, idol, writer, producer, chef. I finally realized I have become an Otaku. Even If I wanted to become one of the above mentioned it is too late to change my careers now (maybe if I was rich and financially free for rest of my life, I would have immediately changed careers). Writing is the only feasible options left, I can try other things as a hobby like cooking, dancing, learning music, opening a clinic and pretending to be a doctor in my spare time (I am just kidding, if I do that I will get arrested on the spot) but I want to focus on one thing at a time.
From my career point of view, I was fascinated by data science and it is easy to switch to this field as I have background in engineering. How I came to know about this field and my past academics will be revealed on 1st or my 2nd anniversary on Medium depending upon my improvements on writing skills.
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In conclusion I choose my main profession to be data scientist and secondary/sub profession to be a writer. Well, I don’t want to contradict what I said that is focus one thing at a time. So, until I get employed and become stable, I will only be focusing on technical skills of data science and writing what I learnt is one way to improve my writing skills and also enhance my technical skills. I don’t know who originally said the following quote but in my school days my teachers would say this, so i am following it.
“Writing one time is better than reading 100 times”. — My teachers
My brain in background is telling me the quote doesn’t count to you because you are not writing but typing.
Assumed Profession Levels:
After writing this headings (I found what I wanted to do, assumed profession levels) I understood, I am also poor in choosing headings I also have to research in naming sense. Any way going forward after deciding what I wanted to, I have made levels in the professions as shown in below table
The levels mentioned are about experience rather than mastery of skills. This is because consider the following scenario, If I have a talent in writing field I might become a senior writer within 5 years, on contrary to it If I have no talent in this field after struggling for 10 years, I might still be an entry level writer. So, the levels are according to the experience because, in order to succeed at something, you need to put equivalent amount of time and effort into it.
I have given adequate time span for each level so even I have to succeed late or succeed faster I will still be considering the above-mentioned levels in my Medium bio and posts. In conclusion I am assuming as long as I continue to learn the skills consistently for next 10 years, I will be a senior data scientist and Mid-Senior writer.
My Plan for Next 10 Years:
Well, I came across many you tube videos and posts by professionals in the field titled “If I can start over learning again I would this”. Although they can’t do that now but still there experience was very helpful for a beginner like me. I have considered what they have said but still I am not going to do what they told for at least for six months, because I have joined career development institute related to data science. They have guaranteed after completion of 6 months of training I will many opportunities to attend interviews in their partnered companies until I am employed. I am thinking of using the tips from other experience after I landed a job.
To achieve the above-mentioned levels like beginner, junior, senior etc. a detailed outline plan is required. Each week I am going to make a weekly report post in Medium. 10 years span has approx. 520 weeks. So, each week report in medium post subtitle will be an alpha numeric where alphabets will be A-Z and numbers will be 1–20. In summary the week_ids will be A1,A2,A3……A20,B1,B2,…..Z18,Z19,Z20. In regards to daily plan, each day will be divided into slots where each slot will be 40 mins, as shown below
24 hours /40 min =36 slots
12 slots of learning/writing are the minimum no of slots to tell if my day is productive. if it is productive it is marked as green and minimum 5 green days is required to consider my week is productive. The following table will be shown in every week report to see if my week is productive or not
I know planning like this for 10 years and keeping true is difficult, as I am of now it is nearly impossible. Still consistency and discipline, goals and rewards are what makes you better and keeps you motivated respectively. So, to be consistent I need to reward myself, so I designed this small table as shown below where for every 3 months of consistent writing of reports on Medium I will reward myself with the respective items. (Note: 3 months span implies a quarter which will be 13 weeks)
Conclusion
Being consistent with my weekly reports is not a promise I made with others, but a promise to myself. This promise will be my first step I take towards the better future. I hope the next 10 years will be an excited and promising journey.
