Okok. So let’s make a breakdown on what has been happening this whole year. So basically I’ve been on my self-improvement year or that ‘This is my year’ mindset in 2024. Did the things to improve myself which eh kind of work in its own ways. Many things I haven’t really improved on like being healthier and what not but all that’s not the point. So basically starting at when I was 10, something switched in my head after the hurricane clocked up my house. It was basically the time when your mind basically becomes conscious (you probably wouldn’t understand) Anyways skipping a lot of years, by the time I was 14 or 15 I basically started to think about that I was actually going to do when I grow up. So I was pretty much a fan of web development (specially HTML, CSS) so I was like why don’t I just start early and train to become a Web developer. So for majority of my 15 years, I basically just look up different tutorials (specifically W3schools) and all of that, until I ran into a major problem at 16. I knew of all the HTML, CSS tags and I can build semi-ish websites until I find out I didn’t had the ability to problem solve. If I were to build a website on my own, I could kind of do it but when it comes for me solving problems or building website from looking at a image that is where I fail at. So basically everything fell apart. I got demotivated, felt like I’m too dumb to learn programming, basically spent months on searching a easy job to do. Yeah everything fell apart in one way or another. So skip forwards, It’s New Year’s Eve, and in my head I was thinking on like what I’m going to do in 2024, it will be one year before I become an adult, I had a need that I will need to actually put forth a plan. Specifically a plan to get my life together and actually find a job that I can start up my life with. This is where data came in. Basically at this point, I know nothing about data science, so I basically just did my research and found it pretty cool so I decided that hey let me just head into it a see what happens. So basically for about half the year is just me learning the most important thing about data analytics/science which was SQL. I learned on w3schools, and oddly enough found it surprisingly easy. So I just kept going, until I just decided to do some practice questions on stuff like HackerRank or Leetcode. Leetcode easy questions were easy, but I basically fail majority of the questions on hackerank. So of course I felt like an absolute failure, but until I went on forum websites of the same people like me who basically struggled or felt pretty bad of themselves in a way they can’t even solve easy Leetcode questions. But many people said that the questions are supposed to hard or supposed to be difficult enough where you have trouble with, so you can look up solutions on how to solve it, that’s pretty much how you learn. It simpler words, you basically try not to just solve the question, but try to always understand the solution, so you can apply to the things you learned from understanding that solution. So that’s why I went to other resources like SQLZOO and SQLBolt because those websites actually teach me to problem solve come data analyst questions because W3schools tell jack-all about problem solving and basically (imo) just a resource to know what each function does. Anyways, that was basically the main problem in my learning, but another major problem was just the lack of motivation. Now I’m a social media addict, I basically on it just majority due to the reason of being basically being a introvert and having limited hobbies while staying inside. So basically my mind would much rather just be online than study. So basically I wasn’t getting anywhere with my studies, so I basically just decided to quit all social media, I basically sign out of it all. And my motivation basically increased by a lot so that’s good. Either way I’m going cut this short since y’all got things better to do than listen to a stranger’s story. I will give another update when I feel like it.
