Frankly, it is not easy, but didn’t say no way. In our team, some staffs have 5+ working experiences as testers; they walked through Moto Ezx, LJ platforms, now came to new platform - Google Android. Did you ask yourself, how could I keep fresh after 5 year working in the same team, same jobs? You may not think about it, but that is very important for your career, your life. At least, I often ask myself these questions, basically I can share my several thoughts with you as old friends. Hopefully, they may be useful for you too, but welcome your any comments, you can share your own way on how to do it.
First, don’t lose curiosity for any new cutting-edge technology. Please image how the human being develop the current civilizations, one of the major reasons is curiosity personality for mankind. Man always wonders what he did something that the others never did before, or wonder what the new place is like where nobody in his country went ever, and so on. That is why we found America Continent, we invented train, auto-mobile, car, electronic, etc. So if you still had curiosity for new things in your life, especially for any new changes in your working industry, it should be easy for you to keep fresh, active in your job, even you will be the person who created new records or history, that would be awesome. Anyway, don’t reject changes, which may bring more opportunities in your life, be open-mind to accept the new things, and try to know what happened on that if you really have no idea about that. Of course, here I am saying business things, not our colleague privacy, or some rumors, etc.
Second, take actions!!!
Anyone could approach it if he had taken actions to pursue challenges, goals, and move forward everyday. Nobody can succeed if you always are thinking what it is, but do nothing, except you are Socrates, a great Greek philosopher. That is very important. Basically, most guys are passive to take time do something new, different; especially they have a little idea about them. They may have lots of questions on those new things, but just wait for others to taste them first, that is low risk for them and effective, but they will lose activeness for most things gradually. However, if you really take time to do something different what you didn’t do ever, that will help you have a good feeling, self-satisfied. If you like to taste new dishes by going through Wangjing district, why not taste new technology or new business.
Third, have a good time in weekend.
I don’t know what you do in your last weekend. May I ask you several questions first? Did you feel great last weekend? How often? Did you feel the time consumed very fast last weekend? Did you have a good plan for next weekend and look forward to seeing your friends without one minute delay? If all answers are yes, please skip the following paragraph, if not, I suggest that you should consider my questions again. Actually that is your privilege on how to take it, I didn’t offend it, but that really help you keep refreshed or relax yourself after a wonderful weekend. Please image you are in another world during the 2 days, totally different to what you did in your past 5 days, you may forgot everything you did last week and what you have to do next week, that is very great. I am surely you are different when you came back from another world, with full energy, and like to do anything with very co-operative attitudes. On the other hand, if you feel depressed on Monday, how could you have active attitudes to your incoming tasks? Especially as a tester, you have to test some cases hundreds of times, if you feel disconnected with what you did last week after the great weekend, which may help you feel good. Basically that is a good way to get balance between life and job.
Finally, a good team will help you keep fresh, so everybody have responsibility to create more funs in your work, make your colleagues feel fresh. Actually that need your innovations, how could you make your work funny or get funs from your work? I am looking forward to co-work with those guys who can do that, I think you are them, why not?
In summary, keep fresh, and keep your passions to your work, then keep opportunities …
SF
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