# What would you like to celebrate about March? **URL:** \ **Category:** Archive\ **Tags:** career-development\ **Created:** [31 March 2022 07:35 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-would-you-like-to-celebrate-about-march/57754 "2022-03-31T07:35:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![simon\_tomes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/simon_tomes/32/14009_2.png) [@simon\_tomes](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/simon_tomes)\ **Post date:** [31 March 2022 07:35 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-would-you-like-to-celebrate-about-march/57754/1 "2022-03-31T07:35:55Z")
Another month has passed and for those of us in the northern hemisphere, spring appears to have sprung! 🌼 Reflecting on the previous month, what would you like to celebrate about March? Let’s celebrate with you. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![conrad.connected](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/conrad.connected/32/10123_2.png) [@conrad.connected](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/conrad.connected)\ **Post date:** [31 March 2022 09:37 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-would-you-like-to-celebrate-about-march/57754/2 "2022-03-31T09:37:41Z")
It’s trying hard to snow here in the East of England today, I just took a picture of it and also relented and turned on the heating again after 2 weeks of it standing idle. It was also the month that the psychological 2nd year of shutdown rolled around, so my celebration of March is mostly: - Personal - I gave out some hugs I’m up to hug number 5 since 2020 - Back pain mostly sorted after some visits to chiro - Managed to get some Appium environment reproducibly set up. And having fun getting control of MacOS a bit more lately. Using tools like Java and xcode that I was unfamiliar with was tough. Have learned a lot about the stack in March, and feeling some level of confidence now. ---
**Author:** ![baysha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/baysha/32/9401_2.png) [@baysha](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/baysha)\ **Post date:** [31 March 2022 10:03 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-would-you-like-to-celebrate-about-march/57754/3 "2022-03-31T10:03:38Z")
I gave my first conference talk ever! 🎉 Also for the first time: I was the lead interviewer on both interview rounds. The candidate was great and it looks like I haven’t f\*\*\*ed up the interviews too badly because he’s starting soon 🙂 I managed to figure out how to run a Golang service locally through a proxy, in order to intercept and manipulate calls to a third party service. ---
**Author:** ![mirza](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/mirza/32/9965_2.png) [@mirza](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/mirza)\ **Post date:** [31 March 2022 10:44 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-would-you-like-to-celebrate-about-march/57754/4 "2022-03-31T10:44:25Z")
- The biggest thing is that I’m no longer the only tester on the team - I recommended a friend of mine, who used to work with me a few years back, he passed the interview and his onboarding is coming along nicely. - Other than that, I started taking long walks again - I got a lot of podcast episodes to catch up, AB testing, and Planet Product owner, to name a few! - Done some blogging a bit more than last year and started figuring out a curriculum for an in-person software testing course for people looking for a career change - it’s still in the very early planning phase. ---
**Author:** ![kristof](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/kristof/32/10839_2.png) [@kristof](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/kristof)\ **Post date:** [1 April 2022 05:16 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-would-you-like-to-celebrate-about-march/57754/5 "2022-04-01T05:16:23Z")
> [@mirza](#): > > The biggest thing is that I’m no longer the only tester on the team Nice! Finally! > [@baysha](#): > > I gave my first conference talk ever! 🎉 Woohoo! My wins: - Got some records in video games - Beat a horrible sprint with an insane deadline - Went on holiday with my co-workers as a teambuilding event #StandupsFromInTheSwimmingPool&Jaccuzi - Recorded some awesome upcoming podcasts - Started thinking about writing a blog but I’m to scared to do so 😛 - Still considering it… just requires some effort. ---
**Author:** ![han\_toan\_lim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/han_toan_lim/32/7551_2.png) [@han\_toan\_lim](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/han_toan_lim)\ **Post date:** [4 April 2022 14:33 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-would-you-like-to-celebrate-about-march/57754/6 "2022-04-04T14:33:19Z")
IN March I published another blog post about accessibility and energy management.