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Discussion on: The Definitive List of Things I Don't Know

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Rocky Kev

This really hit close to home for me. Thank you. I was looking back at my experience over the years, and I chatted with this group of devs who were all familiar with Vue, Gatsby, GraphQL, etc. Made me feel insecure. (But then excited about what I don't know!)

  • Remembering what I worked on more than a week ago
    My old boss reached out to me, asking for FREE work on a project I did a month ago. I told them it will take me 10 hours of paid work just to remember what I was doing. They got really upset.

  • Being an IT support.
    I get dizzy talking to the IT guys when they geek out about servers.

  • Hardware.
    My coworkers keep coming up to me, asking me to recommend a laptop to buy. My answer -- a Chromebook. Because all I do is see them on Youtube anyways.

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Niko Heikkilä

Well, had I included all the Javascript frameworks I don't know here this list would have grown to have hundreds or maybe thousands of entries.

My old boss reached out to me, asking for FREE work on a project I did a month ago. I told them it will take me 10 hours of paid work just to remember what I was doing. They got really upset.

Wow... I would have hung up the call right after them stating the work should be done without any compensation.