Many times it happens with me that I am not able to explain to people what I want to do or achieve. From my end, I am trying to build a holistic knowledge, that appears logical to me, and in the end, help me deliver something to the people around me, which proves beneficial.
My studious nature since the beginning and coming from research background help me focus for a long time. At the same time, it also hinders my progress rate as it is tough for me to not go after the fundamentals.
I switched from Biology to IT/Computer Science in 2014 July. Since then it’s my ever-growing quest to gain skills and knowledge in a fast manner so that the height of a career that I left with biology, I can gain back.
But shifting to a new domain has never been easy, especially when you are sensitive to your family and everyone else around you. Studying, earning, and taking care of the family is by no means an easy task, especially when you are someone who doesn’t get satisfied with achievements easily.
Shifting domain was not an easy thing to me. I left a generous fellowship amount. When I left biological sciences, I left a field which I studied and pursued for more than 14 years. Leaving biology left me only one marketable skill. That was my communication skills in English, which also gave me my first job in customer help-desk.
Later on, I studied and studied from various resources about computers, to reach to a level where I can respectfully feed my family. But the job is not even half-done; my real quest begins now to build and contribute something via my knowledge. This task is something which I wanted to do from the domain of the biological sciences too, but things went another way. Now this time, I am more hopeful and focused on doing the same.
Now coming back to the sweet dilemma, something idea to do everything correctly actually waste too much of your time.
I will try to avoid that.
Shifting domain wants a significant change in your vocabulary. I shifted to the computer world, so I have to build up the dictionary. I am still working on it. Things are more apparent now than four years ago. Programming, Softwares, Operating systems, Programming languages, API, Cloud computing are much more clear to me now.
So let’s start.
How many of you have felt the school books don’t teach you crucial job-ready skills.
Let me tell you. I used to think in the same manner a while ago, but not anymore. Now all my books and their teachings make sense to me.
I am studying about:
Amazon web services
Computer Architecture
Machine Learning
Data Science
Deep Learning
Kubernetes
and I am working with these technologies too.