People who’ve outgrown similar issues — can you share what helped you? Thank you in advance.
During the development of our platform, we set students of our colleague with accounts to prepare their final year projects in machine learning. The platform is supposed to lower the barrier to entry for machine learning, and provide a self service interface for people who are not familiar with tracking, deployment, etc. What better user than students to test that it works?
It's impressive the number of problems even thirty users taking your product for a spin can surface, and after many of them complain about something, it is obvious you need to fix it or add a feature to solve a legitimate problem.
Sadly, I have not found a real solution for this at my job. I have tried changing teams, but I usually find similar issues on each - the biggest being a lack of confidence in how the business product owner is handling the system's business process design. So I just carry on, knowing that I'll never get promoted or be a respected part of the system. I've spent the last 5 years in this mindset and it's terrible, but at least I can support my family (what was that quote from Home Improvement... something like 'there's no such thing as a crappy job if you're using that money to support your family').
- it keeps me accountable
- it helps me to talk to myself, in a more efficient manner
- it is a good thing to talk to your parents. she feels really nice about it
Before this I used to write in a journal, but I have found this to be much more efficient and has several side benefits.
You can also try finding someone close parents/siblings/friend/sibling etc.
>Once I see a clear path to a solution, I lose interest
You have just satisfied your curiosity successfully! That's great outcome too. You learned a lot.
Whatever you do, Have fun, you live only once.
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