What’s your win this week? Either personal or professional or both - let’s celebrate them together!
My wins are:
Getting a nice (and unexpected) bonu$ at work.
Had great chat with @simon_tomes - we got to know each other a bit better and talk about testing related teaching topics, workshops and such.
Got recommended by a friend to a start-up looking for a tester, it would be part time consulting gig, but I would get to play around with technologies I haven’t used much before (JavaScript ecosystem) and it’s a fairly new project so I’d would be a good opportunity to get better at test-process stuff, advocate early testing, automating early and sensibly.
Met me CEO’s former mentor a 75 year old retired programmer and IT manager, who’s bored with his retirement so he’s doing some consulting. I love talking to elderly people from our profession, they got some many interesting stories to tell!
Started exercising on an elliptic machine regularity, I created a calendar reminder for myself and found out that it works well for me, as I’m one of those people who leave no email unread and have to check every single notification - albeit it can be a bit distracting at time!
And best of all, I’ve been spending most of my free time with my baby son, playing around and going for long walks - while he’s sitting in his little stroller and looking around I’m listening to testing podcasts.
Collaborated with MoT Founder Rosie Sherry on how we might better map community activities with MoT activities – to help community members and the MoT business achieve what they want to achieve. Exploring an idea we coined called: “If This Then That So They”. Early days but could be onto something for the world of community
My wife’s moving jobs so has been at home and we’ve got to hang out. It’s been cool to have company during my breaks!
FaceTiming my 3-year old son whilst he rides around a slow river ride at a theme park. I couldn’t be there in person as I was working – but I still got to see his smiling face of wonder as he rode around pointing everything out to me!
I did my first ever podcast (not talking about racket this time) but about TestSphere Roulette with @sjprior & @david.maynard"Episode 3"
Before starting, I felt so scared, If I will find random topics live and give examples or if I get blocked without finding words to talk. Fortunately It went well and we had amazing discussions !!!
Felt so tired recently and my focus is not that efficient, started mindfulness in practice, I can recommend 21 DAY ABUNDANCE MEDITATION still in day 4 and it’s cool to try !
Edit: +1 more win just now
Finally received my ebay package part of the testing challenge related to testbashhome !
I’ve had small wins this week. Wins are wins, big and small.
Professional Win - I managed to have a mostly productive week, closing out some tasks that were hanging over my head from pre-TestBash Home. It felt good to close those mental loops. While also making plans for our month “off” in August.
Personal Win - doing some gardening tasks I’ve not been able to do. I’m a bit mentally fatigued at the minute, so couldn’t even do my gardening. But this week, I did my repotting, some weeding and some dead-heading.
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to all of us!
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