Hey everyone! 👋 I’m thinking about starting a journal to track my software development journey (after more than 3 years working as a developer 🤦‍♂️) and would love to hear your thoughts on this. Have any of you kept a journal of your dev journey? How has it helped you in your career? Would you mind sharing some tips on what you typically include in your entries and how often you update it, how do you categorise it? Thanks a lot for sharing! 😊

I completed the Setting Clear Goals & Objectives exercise for the 🧠 Mindset Of An Expert Developer course. I'm excited to share my goals with the community. I'm sharing my goals to create a space where we can declare what we want and work towards it together, just like @Dragos Nedelcu and @Bogdan Nedelcu are teaching us. Let's build a supportive and accountable community where we can all achieve our goals. My 90-day, 1-year, and 3-year goals: 90 days: Get a new job as a front-end engineer using Next.js and TypeScript working on an e-commerce product for a company in the United States, earning an offer of $100,000, working 4 days a week, and having a fully remote contract. I continued to travel the United States in my SUV and 19-foot travel trailer with my wife and 2 children. 1 year: Become a full-stack engineer overseeing projects from start to finish. I'll use Astro.js to manage the website/application infrastructure and Vue.js for the front end. I'll earn $150,000 annually, take on more leadership responsibilities at my current job, attend four major tech conferences (2 in the U.S., 1 in South America, and 1 in Europe), and travel internationally with my wife and two children, living a digital nomad lifestyle. 3 years: Become a Software Architect at a well-respected tech company in Europe or Oceania, earning $250,000 annually, expanding my skill set to include AI-assisted development, becoming a generalist who focuses on solving problems efficiently with many tools at my disposal, and mentoring developers. I want to live on a farm with my wife, 2 kids, cows, goats, pigs, dogs, cats, birds, vegetable garden, and orchard. I'm excited to see what the future holds for all of us! Share your own 90-day, 1-year, and 3-year goals in the comments below.

I recently completed the "Knowing Yourself" exercise in the "Mindset of an Expert Developer" course. I learned that my personality type is Campaigner (ENFP-T). I also identified some strengths that will help me in my development career and some weaknesses that I need to manage. You can view my worksheet here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vTMtjtJMrhqQZLhWk6DENFFjcfwUmg2AikLMv-9icx0/edit?usp=sharing I am interested to hear from other members about their personality types and how they manage their strengths and weaknesses.

Hey folks, We are launching 🚀 theSeniorDev Podcast 🎙️, where @Bogdan Nedelcu and I will be discussing topics around software engineering and career development. You will be able to find the episodes here in the community and on major podcast providers (Spotify, Apple & YouTube). Is there anything specific you would like us to talk about? 🤔 Let us know here. Can't wait to see what you come up with! 🌟 Cheers, Dragos

Hey ambitious Devs, To help each other even more, let's connect on Linkedin! 👉 Drop your profile in the comments below so everyone can connect with you! We can also drop you some endorsements, make sure you return the favor! 👉 Send me a connection request mentioning TheSeniorDev Academy :) Here is my profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dragosnedelcu P.S. Super nice to see how cheerful and helpful everyone is around here :) Keep it up!