Hitting refresh on my career(译)----重新定义我的事业

我是在PlanetXamarin这个网站上,看到的这篇文章,看完后,觉得挺能引起人的思考的,特别是我们广大程序员.

"Hit Refresh"这两个单词,字面上理解:点击刷新按钮. 国内有人翻译为"拥抱变革",我觉得“拥抱变革”,可能并不准确,翻译成"重新发现自己,重新定义自己的一部分"可能更生动形象一点.

先介绍一下原文作者:Jim Bennett----微软MVP,Xamarin MVP.

 

译文:

Satya Nadella(微软现任CEO)写了一本超级棒的书<<Hit Refresh>>,我受到了他这本书鼓舞,我决定我要写一下有关我自己的Hit Refresh的时刻.

 

Hit Refresh的灵感来自刷新你的浏览器----浏览器并不会重新加载一切,相反,它只是刷新了页面的一部分. 由此可以联想,我们如何改变现在的生活,不是完全的改变,相反只是改变一部分.

就我而言,大约在三年半之前. 虽然我工作在世界上最大的金融机构,从事桌面应用程序的开发,但是我感到很无聊,没有激情.   我当时使用着老的技术,做着枯燥的工作,我的老板们都是一些只关心钱的人,我失去了我的激情. 在平时周末的时候,我也不再写代码,我也不再关心最新最酷的技术.  最终,我终于受不了了,我需要改变.

 

我觉得开发app是条出路,因为对于app这种新事物我有着强烈的兴趣- 无论我们去哪,我们都有能力创造内容和消费内容.  我看了看开发app所需的技术,我发现了Xamarin. 我可以使用一种我早已无比熟悉的语言---C#,一种我早已无比熟悉的开发工具---- Visual Studio 去开发app.  在很短的时间里,我就投入到了对Xamarin学习中,我辞掉了我讨厌的那份工作,我带着我的MacBook,Surface和我的Xamarin开发许可证 (三年半前,使用Xamarin这项技术是收费的,现在是免费的) ,当然还有支持我理解我的妻子和我的还在蹒跚学步的孩子去了泰国,在泰国一个共享办公的地方进行学习开发app. 我花了大约4个月的时间在学习Xamarin这项崭新的,令人无比激动的技术上.

 

那时,我虽然找不到一份有关Xamarin开发的工作,相反我又回到了我原来所从事的那项技术相关的工作,那份我讨厌的工作去支付我的日常账单,毕竟我还有老婆和孩子要去养活,但是我深深的爱上了Xamarin社区。我的激情又回来了,我想把我对Xamarin的爱传播到整个世界,我开始在Github上上传我的代码,我开始再次写博客,我的第一次研讨会上的发言,开始参加meetup,开始参加国际会议。

我真正找到了我的激情所在.  不久之后,我得到一份有关Xamarin开发的工作,我搬家到了新西兰。在新西兰,我开始组织当地的meetups,在当地微软团队的帮助下,我参加了大量的开发者日活动。

我甚至写了一本有关Xamarin的书----<<Xamarin in Action>>.

 

Xamarin这项让app开发变得更简单的技术拯救了我,让我从一种毫无激情,百无聊赖的生活状态变得充满激情。 我逐渐发现我是一个爱表现自我的人,所以我抓住了每一个可以公开发言的机会。我重新定义了我自己,不是通过刻意的模仿去成为别人,一个别人的复制品,而是寻找我真正的灵魂,我真正的自己。我对现在的生活很满意,我爱我所做的事情。在事业方面,起到了意想不到的效果,又一个"Hit Refresh"时刻即将来临,我将要写一篇有关这个时刻的博文.

 

寻找你所爱的东西,用它来"Hit Refresh"你的生活,尽管没有任何人会知道它会引领你到何方.

 

原文:

Inspired by Satya Nadella's Hit Refresh, a book well worth reading, I thought I'd write about my Hit Refresh moment.

Hit Refresh is inspired by refreshing your browser - it doesn't reload everything, instead it just reloads part of the page. This is reflected in how we can change our lives, not by a complete change, but by refreshing a part. In my case it was three and a half years ago. I was working in finance for some of the worlds largest institutions writing desktop apps, and I was bored. By doing boring work using old technology for people who only cared about how much money they could make I'd lost my passion. No longer did I code at weekends or keep up to date with the latest cool things. In the end, enough was enough. I needed a change.

I decided mobile was the way to go, as I felt a strong interest in these new paradigms - the ability to take our content creation and consumption with us wherever we went. Looking around the technology landscape I discovered Xamarin. I could write mobile apps using C#, a language I was very familiar with, in Visual Studio, a tool I was also very familiar with. In a short space of time I took the plunge - I quit a job I hated and parked in a co-working space in Thailand with my MacBook, a Surface and a Xamarin license (and a very understanding wife and toddler). I spent 4 months learning this new, exciting technology.

At that point I couldn't find a job as a Xamarin developer, instead I went back to finance to pay the bills, but got heavily involved in the community. My passion was back so I wanted to spread this love around the world. I published code again, I blogged again, and for the first time I spoke at events, starting with meetups, then moving to international conferences. I'd truly found my passion. Later I got a job as a Xamarin developer, moving to New Zealand. Here I got involved running the local meetups, spending time with the local Microsoft team helping at all day events. I even ended up writing a book on Xamarin!

I went from bored, to full of passion for a technology that made mobile so easy. I'd learned how much I loved presenting, so do it at every opportunity. I'd reinvented myself, not by a conscious effort to become someone else, but by discovering who I truly am. I am more content with my life, I love what I do. And career-wise, it has played out incredibly well, with another Hit Refresh moment coming, that I will blog about soon!

There is a moral to this story - find what you love and use it to hit refresh on your life, who knows where it will lead!


This post is part of the collection of #HitRefresh moments. Read more at www.hitrefreshbook.com

 

 

PS:我自己的一些阅读感想如下:

鲍尔默时代的微软是封闭的保守的反应迟钝的,在Satya Nadella(微软现任CEO)时代,微软是革新的,反应迅速的,拥抱开源的,开放的,敢于壮士断臂的。

那么,我们能不能放下对微软的偏见,去重新认识这个已经重新定义了自己的巨人呢?

试想微软这几年做出了巨大的改变,重新定义.net这项技术-----Asp.net Core,收购了一家与自己的风格完全不匹配的公司------Xamarin(这个公司有点另类,从历届Xamarin Evolve 发布会就能看出来,一水的Macbook Pro,发布会风格就不用说了,完美! 关键,色彩搭配很nice,我一度以为苹果会收购这家公司,Xamarin的风格和苹果太像了)----与Linux握手言和,加了Linux基金会---也加入了Eclipse基金会-------收购了R语言这家公司------全面转型到云时代,稳坐云的第二把交椅

 

这在微软的鲍尔默时代是无法想象的事情,但是在这位印度裔新CEO的领导下,一切都变得有了可能.

那么我们这些一个个程序员在未来能否有微软这种勇气,和自己的敌人握手言和,保持一种开放的心态,去遇见去寻找我们新的朋友,同时与我们早已厌倦的老朋友做一次彻彻底底的分手呢?我的意思是,技术总有过时的一天,与其死守,不如去拥抱下一个新星,下一个新时代.

当然了,重新定义自己的事业是一件需要勇气的事情,从事自己所爱的技术,也是一件值得尊敬的事情.

如同我翻译的这篇文章的作者的经历,和微软这家企业的兴衰,足以让我们意识到,这个世界很少有不变的东西,如果你的大脑你的思维你的想法开始僵化,就是你抛弃这个世界的时刻,然而这个世界并没有抛弃你,是你抛弃了它,因为这个世界随时欢迎一个重新出发的你的再次光临!

 

永远不要做无法使你快乐的事情!

posted @ 2017-10-25 02:54  牛肉汤先生  阅读(700)  评论(0编辑  收藏  举报