Let’s briefly look back on last year!
Background
I write this retrospective because I wrote it every year and there were some things that I’d like to write. Here are past retrospectives.
- [Retrospective](EN) Fourth-year tech blogger’s blog operation retrospective
- [Retrospective](EN) Short retrospective in February 2021
- [Retrospective](EN) Retrospective of a tenth-year major in computer science and engineering
It took more than 3 days to write [Retrospective](EN) Retrospective of a tenth-year major in computer science and engineering post. It was a long post because it was to commemorate my 30 years old. However this time I’m going to write a retrospective of my job, major, and my life in short.
How was last year?
Last year was quite good for me because I made a good performance on my work, did a presentation, and wrote a blog. I had anxiety and a sense of skepticism the year before last but I could study more and concentrate more on my work last year. What are the reasons? Those are like the below.
Work that contributes to the company
My previous workplace’s works were only for once and not continuous because all those works are advanced development. However, from the year before last to last year, it was a part that could contribute to the company and was essential for the future. There is no company where data is not needed and I think it is necessary because it seems that the company can get new insights through data.
Latest trends work
I took a data collection part in the company’s big data department and it is a trend these days. Many public cloud companies are also presenting various technologies and seem to be publishing a lot of papers.
Going through solving difficulties
There were difficulties when integrating other services. While doing that our team solved many difficulties. There were some events solving requirements from the data source owner. Those works were quite worthwhile to me.
Writing blog steadily
Although the number of new posts decreased compared to the year before last. I kept writing my blog. Still, many things are left to write but I’m trying to write them. Visitors are decreasing but I don’t care about it much. I’m going to write the blog this year same as last year.
I feel like growing up
I grow up every year but I think last year was the most. Last year we tried sprint planning and event storming activity. In development, I studied a lot while thinking about how to collect data in the cloud such as AWS or GCP. Especially I studied more about cloud services and authentication. I learned about AWS IAM user and role and GCP service account. I searched each database’s fetch solution in AWS. Also, I tried Airflow, Dataflow, and VPC Endpoint related things. A little sad thing is… it was regrettable that I could not more focus on the server backend or code related parts.
Presentation which was my bucket list
It has been a dream that makes a presentation at our company event since I was young. Technically my dream is to present the products that I made at CES or MWC. Thankfully I was lucky that I could make a presentation at SSDC(Samsung Software Developer Conference) which is a small software event in our company. There were many other things like achieving my work goals but it is one of the most rewarding things last year. It’s not a big thing but I felt like I approached one step toward my dream.
As I wrote above, last year was good for me. Last year I thought about studying veterinary medicine and that part still remains in my mind. I’d like to work hard to develop my abilities and help somewhere. I still think about the way to help animals. I choose to make a lot of money and support them but… still, many things are left to do. I think I still have many goals in my mind. Ability to fully support my family and parents, help people who don’t even have a chance, help animals, and make something that can help catch bad people, and still, there are many goals. Except for these goals, there are actually many important things in life. I will write those things in my diary!
Were there any regrets? With that regret, I will organize the regrets and how I can become better than before.
Regrets and improvements
Focus more on code
This year I’m going to more focus on writing good codes than just implementing codes.
Concentrate more
I think I sometimes lost concentration when I do something. So I should make a habit to make better concentration.
Concentrate more when doing self-development
Especially when I study or do other things at home, my concentration disappears quickly. So I should focus on what I have to do and finish it faster.
It is good to have my product
I studied hard but I made no product last year. I’d like to make my product and release it this year. It can be a game or service.
About life
This time I wrote short than last year. It is because I don’t need to write long. I think company works and self developments(software, stock, economy, blog, game development, etc) will be similar to last year.
When I was young, I thought 30 years of me would achieve many things but I cannot sure how many things I achieved. I think I had many goals when I was young and growing up. Maybe because I read a lot of great personal biography I’d like to protect and develop our country which has been struggling and developed in difficult circumstances, I’d like to help good people who suffered from bad people and I’d like to help and contribute to the world. Of course! It’s the same now. I sometimes dream of achieving any of my previous goals and thinking that my life was “OK” before I died so many times later. Nowadays I’m interested in helping animals which need help.
The previous goals are important but the most important thing in my life is my happiness. Most of my happiness is from my family and my people. My family is more important than any previous goal. I regret that I could not care for my brother(dog) and family because I just cared for myself and focused on my success. After that, I’m trying to spend even one more minute with my family. I’d like to take care of my family and spend more time with them. Nothing is more important than my family.
This year I’m going to be independent of my current family and make a new family. I am looking forward to the future of me and my family living in a new home! I am worried about becoming the head of the household but I believe that everything will be fine in the future as I have lived so far. My first goal is to take care of my new family, my parents, and my brother(dog). As I said family is the most important! My most precious and important thing is my family!
Conclusion
I’m curious how I’ll write this next year! Let’s continue to work hard as I have done so far! Thanks to all that I have and work hard with humility!