{"id":158,"date":"2014-10-21T01:14:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T05:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2014-10-21T10:04:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T14:04:53","slug":"2014-a-year-of-change-and-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/21\/2014-a-year-of-change-and-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 &#8211; a year of change and growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>let&#8217;s start with my goals from last year and see where i stand:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>i did buy a townhome and i&#8217;m loving it<\/li>\n<li>Kathy did move in with me and we have a dog named <a title=\"Remy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Candescent-Remington\/357660257719152\">Remy<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Queen City Thunder did not make it to regionals but we made a good attempt considering our region was the most competitive it&#8217;s ever been<\/li>\n<li>i don&#8217;t have a six pack. in fact, my annual Microsoft health screening says i&#8217;ve gotten a bit less healthy ;(<\/li>\n<li>avoided getting a blister this past summer<\/li>\n<li>i did get promoted at work. i had my best review since starting at Microsoft and i&#8217;m really enjoying my work. i&#8217;m working hard in hopes of getting 2 more promotions before the end of the fiscal year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>i started working on my first real coding project. you can find all the details at\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/github.com\/maxxwizard\/inhouseBot\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/maxxwizard\/inhouseBot\">https:\/\/github.com\/maxxwizard\/inhouseBot<\/a>. i&#8217;ve never felt the desire or motivation to code for fun or have a hobby project until recently. your brain changes immensely over the years so for all those who feel like they haven&#8217;t hit their stride or found their calling (e.g. me in college), stay positive and don&#8217;t be an asshole &#8211; your time to shine will come if you stay grateful, humble, and somewhat hungry (for life\/success).<\/p>\n<p>life is really stable nowadays so i do get antsy. it&#8217;s good that i live with a bunch of roommates and a girlfriend because there&#8217;s always something to do and people to hang out with. also, charting out future goals gives me something to strive for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>finish this inhouseBot by Thanksgiving 2014<\/li>\n<li>escalation engineer [debugging code] by end of FY15<\/li>\n<li>principal engineer or executive by the time i&#8217;m 30 years old<\/li>\n<li>at least $3M when i retire at 65<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>let&#8217;s start with my goals from last year and see where i stand: i did buy a townhome and i&#8217;m loving it Kathy did move in with me and we have a dog named Remy Queen City Thunder did not make it to regionals but we made a good attempt considering our region was the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/21\/2014-a-year-of-change-and-growth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2014 &#8211; a year of change and growth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ponderings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}