Saturday, July 22, 2017

Can I be a manager?

July 22, 2017


Introduction


It is a good topic to come into Julia's mind last few days for her next topic of research. Julia likes to do a short research, maybe 30 minutes, maybe more. One research topic is to be a manager. How to be a manager? Julia knows that so many of her friends at Florida Atlantic University back to 1998 to 2006 are managers and principle scientists right now.

It is more interesting to be a manager to manage a software team. One thing Julia likes to study is Amazon principle leadership. She also likes to follow managers on linkedin.com.

Recently, Julia visited her 2nd or 3rd connection with managers title working in Amazon, so she tried to follow every manager in her circle. But she only followed 2 managers yesterday and then Linkedin gave her warning messaging "Jianmin, you've reached the commercial use limit. Please upgrade to LinkedIn Premium Business Navigator, or Recruiter to get unlimited people browsing."

Julia likes to talk about warnings she got in her life last 6 months, and then how she works hard to get back to good standings.

Search for warnings


Julia was busy with her full time job and also training in algorithm and data structure. And then she had a car accident in February, 2017. It is such a surprise, but Julia analyzed the problem before. Every accident there is over 10 times warnings. Julia did not have time to catch them and then the accident happened finally.

Get a good thick skin


Another thing is how to keep up with her siblings. Julia has an elder sister who retired 2 years ago as a high school teacher in China, she has visited more than 20 countries. And she is enjoying life with no worry about working full time or part time. Julia was busy with her hackerrank contest and she also was busy with a lot of sports training ideas. So what Julia does not understand is that how important is to keep up with your family and get more fresh ideas about life and everything. Julia stopped attending church last 6 months and all her activities were limited to home office and office at work, one day she found out that she likes to get into other people's life, so she spent over 6 hours to watch Netflix TV series, she suddenly figured out that is most fascinating creative story in her last 6 months. Julia has to learn how to communicate with people retired with financial freedom, Chinese. Do not get hurt if you are joked how poor as a Canadian and how little wealth you have as a Canadian.


Stand on ground 


Now Julia knows that if she attends the church regularly, talk to her family regularly, she will feel less lonely, spend less time on internet on week days, on Chinese wechat social website, she may have a good sleep the whole week. She can maintain more healthy life style, and also maintain great productivity in other area.


Choose activities more grounded


Julia was busy with mocking interview last 3 months. She practiced more than 80 times. She tried to catch up people skills, learn how to work with people, specially on career growth, technical strength on data structure and algorithm.

Bible teaching is very good on this. Ecclesisters 4:10, if either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. 

To gain technical strength, specially improve algorithm and data structure problem solving, you can not do it alone. The efficient way is to get connected to people in more meaningful way. One viewpoint is that Linkedin is not helpful, waste of money; Julia did some research on Linkedin connection, how much contribution comes from linkedIn last 12 months. How she makes connection last 3 months through mocking interview. How much knowledge and skills she gains to work with peers. 

One thing she compared is the difference. She met a person connected through LinkedIn after a meetup whereas she met a person through mocking interview second time or she got connected again through emails with the person after mocking interview. 

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