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1. Read a book a week. This is doable if i dedicate an hour a day to reading and I pick books that end up being page turners. 2. Play my electric guitar for a
by wishinghand 9y ago
1. Read a book a week. This is doable if i dedicate an hour a day to reading and I pick books that end up being page turners.
2. Play my electric guitar for an hour at least every other day.
3. Put $1000 a month away in my savings account.
4. Learn to implement some basic computer science algorithms in JavaScript. I don’t know how to do binary trees or hash tables and I’d like to be able to teach them at the Javascript fundamentals meetup I run once a month.
- lunchables 9y ago>3. Put $1000 a month away in my savings account. I don't want to assume your financial goals but you might want to talk to a financial planner before just sticking it in a savings account. Unless this is a repository for cash you need short term and with immediate access this is the worst place to put it.
- wishinghand 9y agoMy boss just recommended a tax person to a bunch of us new hires- we're all 1099 contractors. He said basically the same thing as you. I want to start doing things like maxing out Roth and Sep IRAs, or whatever will end up making sense for my position.
- eternalcode 9y agoFor 4, I would recommend leetcode (or, others whichever suits you), and Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena. 2 activities that helped me greatly. Once you read and solve enough problems, then you will start noticing patterns while understanding their purpose.