Why I’m Focusing on Learning, Not Launching This Vacation

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 What I have going on right now: I'm bored during the vacation, and I don't know what to work on.

What I had planned for the vacation was one of two things:

  • Look for a job using my portfolio site

  • Work at any startup or side project, like TaskLoop

Applying for jobs in vacation

I've tried applying to a couple of projects on freelancers.com, and for me, seeing the very, very small percentage and small probability of being accepted makes me feel like this is so fuckin boring and I can't do this. Also, I talked with Mohssen, and he told me that he applied to not less than 20 companies to get a job as a backend developer, and he couldn't find any.

So that made me realize that I am willing to learn, launch, and work on small changes and projects and get feedback early, rather than applying for a ton of jobs, getting rejected, and not even getting noticed.

Working on my side projects in vacation

But here I faced the second problem: TaskLoop, as a project, can't be launched these days, because we're in a vacation, not in a study season.

So that made me feel a little bit disappointed and not willing to put time into a project that isn't going to launch soon.

But I feel like if I started working on TaskLoop as a project to learn, not to launch, I won’t get bored as easily — especially if I show the progress to my friends.

I feel like if I started going to sleep early and waking up early, and working on TaskLoop for some time, and then if I get bored, start applying for jobs — then if I get bored again, return back to TaskLoop — I feel like there's no problem with this.

Building to learn not to launch

I have a goal: to build my own startup.

To reach this goal, what I need is repetition and trying startups and failing multiple times before I succeed.

To start a startup, I need to:

  • Have ideas

  • Be able to execute these ideas

I am able to get ideas from the problems I face daily, but right now, the only ideas I have are TaskLoop and GDG, and both of them require the school season to launch. And now we’re in vacation.

So the solution I came up with is:

Work on being a better executor, and take a course in either UI/UX, React Native, or an Advanced Django course.

Which means I’m working on this project to learn, not to launch — just like what I did last vacation when I learned Next.js.

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