How not to learn in tech?
Do you spend most of your time studying about the technology you want to work on and still are unable to crack any interviews? The reason strongly might be that you are doing it wrong. I am no expert or influencer, i am also a job hunter just like you all but i have figured out a secret that no one wants to tell because the less people know it, the better it is for those who know it. I am about to share (and it is so simple you wont believe it) how not to (and then how to) learn a technology to actually get better. Before that.. take a pause and think… what is it that you currently do to learn? Is it youtube tutorials? Or project building? Maybe buying a course? It’s got to be one or more of these right! I am sorry to say it is not the right way to learn. These are the weak person’s learning techniques. I used to do this too… i used to build projects and take courses and i would do everything (except that one thing) to learn but they never taught me what I didn’t know . And they never made me think “why so?” There exists only one right way to learn (absolutely anything in the world) and that is to learn by failure. What it means? Lets say you want to be a backend engineer. The right way to learn would be to give interviews… let people question your qualification. Let them reject you, let them fail you. Because these questions and rejections will behave like bricks and mortar for your skills. Your job is to pick these questions and find answers to them until there are no more questions left to be asked. That is when you will learn. Not by watching, but by failing. Failing to answer. Lets say you cant get interviews.. then what? So… get one.. how? Apply! If after applying to 100 jobs you arent getting any callbacks.. then probably your resume sucks coz it failed in its job right! So change it. Improvise! Keep the loop going. I am telling you this because i dont have any courses to sell or any video tutorial that i want you to watch. Its pure selfless knowledge not written for those 99% people who will just read and forget. I wrote this for 1% people or maybe just 1 person who will read and follow.
That is one way to learn, but it'll be super inefficient and impractical.
If I want to get good enough to get a job in Java, it'll take me years of failure to appear for 100 interviews and fail, and gather questions in that way.
I can learn the same in a few weeks by watching a YouTube course, doing a couple of personal projects, and reading a couple of interview guide books that have collected hundreds of interview questions and their answers.
Your method is only applicable to those, who don't value their time or efficiency. For most people time is the most valuable resource in the world. Jobs, money, technologies will come and go, but the time gone will never come back.
So ain't nobody got the time to and energy to waste in failing in 100 interviews, to crack one job or learn one technology. No thanks 😂
