mod2_week_1.md

Mod 2 Week 1 : Building Habits to Become a Software Developer, Part II

Students will engage in self-reflection and ideation in their career journals every week during a module.

Copy these prompts into the career journal document you started in Mod 0. Please label this section of your career journal “Module 2 Journal Reflections” and it’s recommended that you use this template to organize your responses.

What is a career journal? The journal will help guide you through the process of discovering who you are as a new developer and how that translates into your career goals. It’s a way to check in with yourself through self-reflection, prompts, and questions, organize your targeted job search, and remember who you met as you build a professional network.

Ideas here are adapted from Atomic Habits by James Clear

Reflect on your habits from last module.

• What behaviors and activities were helpful for you?

AS a mod 1 repeater I made sure to make space to work on my habits. When I fisrt started Turing back in May 2020, I knew that if I wanteed to succed in my studies and build up a good foundation as a developer I needed to work on my habits. As a professional Chef for 10 years , bringin homework to home after a long day at work was not usual.

One important thing I learned by the end of the first time going trhough mod 1 was the importnace of getting enough sleep, which meant for me to create and work around a schedule that would allow me to get enough practice writting code, pre-teach lessonsand revist old ones to keep up with the pace of the school. The second time trhough mod 1 which started on June 2020, I had a better idea how to set up a scehdule that would allow me to get enough rest and also make time to spend time away from the computer. TO be honest sometimes I struggled to stick to my original schedule and more so when working on projects.

I have noticed that it is easy for me to spend hours and hours in front of the computer with out taking enough POM's but the cost is larger when I feel tired and stressed. I have not only had to re-teach lesson again and again but I had also to re-teach myself the inportance to spend time with my love ones and to make sure that I am spending to care for my well being.

• What activities and behaviors could be more effective for you?

I am making a better effort this time around to excercise more, I enjoy nature and outdoor activities. To me one of my motivations to work hard and to organize my time better is because if I am able to have a better control on how I spend my time I can make sure to spend time on nature mountain biking, hiking, cooking and spending time with my love ones.

• I change careers because I always complained I didn't have time invest on the things that made me happy, this is also the why i want to get better at managing my time. I enjoy building code and working thourgh the logic of the my code but it is even more enjoyable to finish a long the of work and still have time to spend with my love ones.

• What processes would you like to try differently this module to become more effective at your work and as a software developer?

• I have been thinking about implementing the use of a personal calendar planner to keep track of all my dalily duities.
• I have been using applications such as notion to keep also track of my Turing activities but I have strugled to set a more reasonale schedule that allows me to keep up with y studies and outside-school activities.

Setting intentions for this module:

• who do I want to be this module?

  • I want for this module to being able to create a schedukle that would hold me accountable on how I spend my time
  • I want to be able to make space for activities outiside of Turing
  • I want to to be able to practice a more work disciplne
  • I want to be able start taking more POM
  • I want to rech out more to my mentors
  • I want to have a better idea of the type of job I want to have when I finish Turing I 'd like to be a person who nourishes his professional and personal life both at the same time I'd like to ahave a better clarity on how to apporach my work and start thinking for my self with the support of others.

• What specific habits would help me get there?

  • getting a peronal planner to create a schedule for my day
  • writting at the end of the day what helped and what didn't
  • excercising 2 to 3 times a day
  • cooking
  • reaching out to my mentors and peers 4 times a week

• How are those habits tied to the identity of a software developer?

  As of right now I am building that identity and I am descovering what it means for me to be a software developer. While talking to other developers that are out on the work place, they stressed a lot the fact of getting confortable with not knowing and trusting the learning process.

Incorporate temptation bundling to create a new habit by using this template:

• After watching netflix for 30 min, I will work on my PD for 1 hour.
• After finishing preateaching a lesson, I will take a 30 min break.
• After finihsing a ironFE I will take a walk.
• After getting distracted on FB I will work on PD homework
• After having breakfast I will work on jsfun 30 min before classes start

How to enjoy “hard” habits: Reframe your habits to consider their benefits rather than their drawbacks; name 3 habits that you have to do and explain the benefits of them. How do they further your goals longterm? How will they add to your processes as a successful developer? At the end of the day, how do they add to your life?

• Watching a series in the middle of the day helps me to distress but afterwatching the episod I feel bad about not spending that time studying
• Not taking enough POms sometines add extra stress and fatigue to my day, but I get the job done. At the end I feel like I don't enjoyed my time coding because the day was too lonng.

Environment design (optional 5-min. additional reading: Motivation is Overvalued. Environment Often Matters More): how does your environment set-up currently help you with your habits? How could it be improved to make it easier for you to follow through on your habits?

• I have been able to create a work space that fulfills my needs. It is isolated from my partner's designated work place, which is the room next door. This has been beneficial and have learned a lot from the this remote learning enviroment.

“When you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do.” Read this 4-min article on how to stop procrastinating. Apply the 2-minute rule to reframe 2-3 of your habits by scaling them down into the 2-minute version. How does this reframing help you think about shaping your new identity as a software developer?

• Today I have started practicing giving myself the time to work and reflect on my PD homework, which has helpend me on my development as SD.