In Software field, finish school or bootcamp is not the end of learning process. It just makes me realize there are a lot more ahead of me to learn. I am human not superman, I will get tired and frustrated but, in the end, we still have to keep working on it. Therefore, what can we do to balance the learning and living is the key for us to keep going.
First of all, have enough sleep is the most important, I know people cannot sleep sometime because the function or the project is not working as you expect it. Self-doubt easily crawls into heads as things get more and more challenging through out studies. When you do not have clear brain to think, and not enough sleep make your eyes not sharp enough to find out a simple typo. These things will all add up to make this project become mission impossible. Coding on red-bull and coffee can only take you so far before your brain stop thinking straight.
Walk away from computer at least one hour before go to sleep and do anything you feel relaxed such as listen music or read book, those things can help you easier falling sleep. I found out that sleep 8 hours can help us release stress and give us energy to face the challenge in the following days.
While we are grinding those knowledge and information, make sure to take a break every 30 to 40 minutes. Brain needs take a break to after study hard, we can only focus for 40 minutes then even without notice our focus will decrease a lot unless we take a break then come back. This also work when we hit a wall with issue and problem. Staring at your computer when stuck will just lead to frustration and be counterproductive, therefore step away for a bit.
Last, we all have something we want to do in live beside learning, working and sleeping. Set up the goals and plan your time wisely. When you plan to go out having fun in the weekend to live a bit, we will need to be productive in the working or studying time during the week. Have a better live is the motivation for us to keep working and studying hard. Learning never end in software field and time management between learning and living can keep us going.
