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Vent: I just hit 1,000 hours of continuing education credits and realized half of it was for stuff I'll never actually use.
I was cleaning out my license renewal folder and saw the total, which felt like a huge waste of money and time on trendy treatments that fizzled out before I even finished the course.
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adam1862mo ago
Ugh, that's the worst feeling... I hit a similar wall a few years back. I started being super picky and only picking courses that solved a problem I was actually seeing that week in my practice. It cut my credits way down, but at least now I remember what I learned because I used it right away. The shiny new thing is almost always a trap.
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the_faith2mo ago
Shiny new thing is almost always a trap" is so true. It's like we're all scared of missing out on some magic fix that will finally make everything easy. But then you're just left with a bunch of half finished courses and no real skill. Picking stuff based on a real problem you have right now is the only filter that works. It forces you to actually finish it because you need the answer. Everything else is just noise.
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parker_hall526d ago
Does this apply to tools too? I see devs jumping on every new framework or library that drops, thinking it'll make them 10x faster, but they just end up maintaining 5 different ways to do the same thing cause none of them stuck. I've been guilty of rewriting stuff just to try out some hot new thing, only to realize the old way worked fine and the new thing has zero docs for the edge case I actually need. Picking a tool because it solves the bug on your board right now is way more honest than picking it cause it got 10k stars on GitHub last week.
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