I’m in a bad mood today, so I decided to write a year-end summary and set up a FLAG for this year. To be a little bit different, let’s call it OKR 2019.
2018 Rematch:
2018 is a relatively dull year for me. Although I switched to a different city and life mode (from campus to workplace), the switch was so seamless that I got used to the new role without even feeling the change in my identity. Here’s a quick recap of some of the biggest events of 2018:
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January and February were the same, working on a remote internship while writing a graduation thesis. Put a seal on the paper and wait for it to be handed in before Chinese New Year. I stayed home for more than a week and returned to Wuhan after a long visit.
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In March, I left the company where I worked as a remote intern and joined another company ahead of schedule for three years. In this remote internship company, I met a group of excellent friends, which broadened my horizon, and I began to think about different ways of life and work, and further think about my career choice and planning. Thanks to this group of partners working together for half a year ~
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In April and May, I started my new life in a new company. Although the work nature was the same as before, it was much more challenging. Looking back now, I think the two months of technical growth was more than the previous six months of internship. People, or can not always live in a comfortable environment, have to make themselves uncomfortable.
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June, leave to deal with the school graduation appropriate. During a more leisurely month, I found time to meet some worthy people. Most of us would probably never have met if we hadn’t set up an appointment. In my spare time, I drove to many new places in Wuhan with my roommates, and then went to Huangshan mountain with my friends (yes, this was my graduation trip). It’s been the most relaxing month in almost two years, no planning, no pressure, just doing whatever comes to mind. That sounds kind of cool. That’s what graduation season is all about.
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From July to September, routine work is measured in two weeks, so three months have slipped by. There are still many challenges in daily work. I need to constantly learn new knowledge, start to think about non-technical things and understand the meaning of the word “engineer”. This is probably the biggest and most important mental shift I’ve made since I entered the workforce.
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In October, when the National Day to remember for many years dunhuang, Desert, although slightly disappointed but also a lot of surprise. The seven-day northwest loop tour is a tired and happy journey, the journey to know a group of small partners is the biggest harvest beyond the beautiful scenery. It was a great time to see magnificent mountains and rivers in different styles and meet people from different walks of life.
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In the last three months, the business at work has changed, overtime and stress have increased, the hours have become faster, and the units of measurement have become months. When you are busy at work, life is like an acceleration, and time flies by without you realizing it. Different from the calm life in the first half of the year, the pace of life in these three months was chaotic, sometimes happy, sometimes sad. The different experience brought a more mature, calm and rational me.
2018 was an ordinary year for me, but I made a lot of important decisions. Fortunately, I haven’t regretted any of them so far. I have really grown up:
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It was not a big deal in itself, but I thought clearly about my long-term life expectations and plans in the future.
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Once you’ve decided to buy a house, you can make a rash decision, but you have to be responsible for your future three or five years and your family. A stupid decision will lead to endless regret. It’s really exhausting.
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Turning down an offer with options (maybe missing out on a chance to get rich, 😂)
It is hard to evaluate my 2018. I have made little progress and gained a lot. To summarize what went wrong:
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I didn’t learn what I needed to learn. I didn’t finish last year’s project. My time management was terrible.
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Reading time is too little, more and more feel that knowledge is not enough, even abandon their own ignorance.
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Summarizing, thinking, planning are not enough, especially during the three months when the rhythm is disrupted. Whatever happens, you have to move at your own pace or adapt quickly to changes.
The 2019 annual OKR
Writing the annual OKR is not a problem for me at the moment. In the short term, I can live a very clear life. I know what I want and how I should do it. But the longer term plan is not written, so the first objective of 2019 is to think about the long term plan and write the longer term OKR when writing the 2020 OKR next year.
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Return college confused debt, learn English and computer, towards the pseudo FullStack direction development.
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Get used to full English reading, expand vocabulary, improve oral and listening.
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Learn more than three MOOCs and become an entry-level full stack.
Become an atypical programmer, overcome character flaws, and tear down stereotypes.
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Improve your social skills and participate in social activities appropriately.
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Focus more on your ability and attitude to be a reliable person.
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Enhance the output capacity, maintain good blog.
Take up more interests, explore and learn more about the unknown.
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Learn to swim, do more physical exercise, socialist successors should have good capital.
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Introduction to finance, economics, psychology, focus on interdisciplinary.
Treat yourself, should spend the money to spend, should relax to relax, do not give yourself the opportunity to sad and sad.
OKR looks so empty, as if nothing is written 😂. It doesn’t matter, it’s not KPI setting. Moreover, the plan is not possible to write down a day, weekly planning, regular review and determine the next stage of the goal is ok.
At this stage, I was especially afraid of my birthday and Chinese New Year. However, the Year of my birth came. To think I’m almost 24 and there’s so much I haven’t done. Time passes really too fast, do not give me slow opportunity.
I hope 2019 will be a more difficult year. I will meet more accidents and accept more challenges. I need to be more resilient and excellent.
Cover picture from northwest Populus euplus forest, the camera has been eating ash for half a year, so it’s not cold enough to dry out _(:з “Angle)_