“A comfort zone is a psychological state in which things feel familiar to a person and they are at ease and in control of their environment, experiencing low levels of anxiety and stress. ”
Since I started my journey at my dream job, 6 months ago, this is the second time that I have been asked to change project.
I started in a big team, where the project was already built, had reusable components, reusable lines of code, everything was super organized and had a senior front-end developer as my tutor. Things were quite easy besides the difficulty of learning how a CI works.
After 2 months I was asked to move to a different project to do the redesign, were I was going to be the only front end developer. I was so nervous about it but I embraced the challenge even so.
It was great for developing my soft skills since I had to have a lot of meetings with the client in order to discuss the website layout, ideas, work on feedback. I even went to the clients office to get to know everyone personally. I also had to do several design stories and that was awesome to be able to introduce new features to the website coming from my creativity.
In the last week I went to another phase in which was required that I do more work than excepted and built pages in a language that I wasn’t comfortable at all. That was at the same time pretty scary, frustrating because I didn’t want to prejudice all the sprint with my time learning how to built and with “IT DOESN’T WORK? WHY??”, but at the same time woke up in me the huge necessity that I have to learn more stuff and be better at my work.
Then, after 4 months in this second project I was asked to move to another different project. And when I say different it is really different. In this third project they use a different markup because things are build in an e-commerce platform.
I had some time to think but in my head my answer was already decided. I was going to embrace this new challenge, even that is again out of my comfort zone and more, in this phase that I’m a junior and have so much to learn. I also had a development plan in the beginning, when I started, that until today is only partiality completed.
So Monday, I will have to change places, teams, project and even floor. I hear a lot of people talking about comfort zone and I feel that for me, this year, I’m always in an uncomfortable zone, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. 🦊
Atomic Fox 