Neha Sharma If I have to describe my year 2022 in a few words I would say - "Power of manifesting".
I stopped making new year goals long back. I now go with the flow.
As I look back I see growth, learning, and enjoying life.
So, here are the highlights of my 2022:
🧳 Moved to London
I started this year with the huge step for my career and life - I moved to London.
I had tweeted all my experience over twitter - food, travel, struggle of finding house, etc.
After spending almost 8 months in London, I can say this is my 2nd home.
🫶🏾 Moved to IC (Individual Contributor) from Engineering Manager
I moved to Engineering Manager role 3 years back. I was enjoying as first-time manager. It was a learning an experience
However, sooner I realized that EM is not something I am keen to keep doing all my life. I was already close to coding. I finally decided to move back to the developer track.
It is now 4 months since I move back to the development track. I am extremely happy with my decision. Reasons:
1) Less meetings
2) Remote work
3) More control on my calendar
4) Closer to what I prefer to do - Coding
🫶🏾 Talks
This was the year when I decided to reduce my public talks. I wanted to focus more on learning new skills. But still, I gave a few talks:
Keynote at React India
Accessibility at RDS
Testing at Pesto
✊ Workshops
2022 opened a new opportunity for me where I taught students different tech. The batch size was between 25 - 40.
ReactJS
NodeJS
Full Stack Web Development
AWS
Testing of FE apps
Web development
Started my YouTube channel
Infact (re)-started my youtube channel. There is so much to talk and share about from my experience, so, Idecided to restart my YouTube channel.
🫰🏽 Travel
This year I have travelled a few places
✌️ Started Learning to drive
I started learning to drive in London. I am super excited and excited to learn to drive this time.
👏 Topmate Top Creator
Topmate.io is my go-to place to meet new folks and for 1:1. I didn't know when I joined that within 1 year I would be their top creator.
They were so awesome that they sent me the goodies pack all way to London.
👏 Dev.to top author and crossed 100k views
Thanks to all wonderful folks who read my blog :)
👏 AWS Community Builder Program
I started my AWS journey a few years back.Srushith guided me for AWS and he introduced me to community builder program.
🧘🏽♀️ Started Yoga
After moving to London, my health became my priority. I was doing 10k steps daily. I now wanted to get myself into a more active life. Hence, yoga :)
What didn't worked:
1 . Calligraphy
I wish I could do more art and calligraphy. I missed artistry-neha. But I still did a few artworks. Here is for your eyes:
2 . Certificates
I wanted to get my AWS certificates but I was not able to book them. Definitely, 2023 would be my year for certificates
Overall 2022 was a great year and I am thankful to everyone and all opportunities.
