Recap 🔍

So last week, I started talking about where I am working and discussing the company and their awesome culture, this week I found out that everyone in the company has been sent a suprise goody box 🎁(I'm still awaiting deleivery of mine but will report when I have it) but I think that the thought behind sending these out to employees is really awesome and shows that they care 😍 about their employees which makes me really happy that I am a part of this.

I also talked about the team and how awesome and supportive they have been. This week it has been more true than ever and I have had some really valuable lessons about creating new code for legacy systems. 👴

This week 📆

So this week has been an intense week 😅, I have had less meetings this week and yet I have been more busyt than last week because I have actually been writing code. The code that was in QA last week: one thing passed 🎉 and is now Pending deployment which means it will be going out in the next website release and the other thing failed.

As much as it sucked that my code failed QA, it isn't a bad thing that it did. I was unaware that you could have multipul messages 💬 with one order so therefor my code worked for on message but for the others, it didn't. It does knock your confidence a bit but its how you respond to that that makes you a better developer 👍. By Friday, I had a fix for this change and had also pushed another thing to be reviewed.

You could say I have learnt a lot from that experience.

To finish off the week, aswell as getting all the LIVE tickets done that were assigned to me before I move on to the work on the brand sites, I found out that the orignal plan for me in these first 2 weeks was for me to shadow 👻 Joao and see how LIVE development works, instead, I have been doing tickets with some help but otherwise been cracking on. I found out some of the devs that are there currently didn't touch any live work until 6 months in. So I mean no wonder I was stressed. 😂

What I have learnt 👨‍🏫

As I have said, this week has been challanging. It has been mentally exhausting 🥱 and I dare say because I took on a lot all at once. I got asked to attend meetings that had no impact to what I am doing or going to be doing. So to any new developers starting a job, in your second week, look out for:

• Not overloading yourself with too much
• Understand that failure is a part of success and that you have to itterate to build amazing.
• Remeber: you were hired for a reason! You will never be perfect to start off with but it's how you grow with the company that determines your value to them 💎

Goals for next week 🥅

My personal goals for next week after reflecting on this past week are to:

• I want to set out a clear set of goals with my line managers to be able to track my progress and make sure they're happy with what I am doing.
• I am going to try to say no to unimportant meetings and understand the value behind my time.
• I am also going to try and be critical with my review of the code I am writing and questioning efficency as I am learning that with C# there are a lot of really cool things that you can do with LINQ and T classes.

Well, with all that said, I'll keep you posted on how it is going at 30 days in!

Thanks for reading

Tom 🎉