Sometimes the little things makes all the difference.
Starting any new endeavor or career can be very challenging, especially if you have no previous experience. Like me, the first habit you would get into is securing every piece of information relating to your new gig. Eg; code, files/document, or anything you deem useful.
Yes! It is good practice, the more informed you are about the subject, the merrier. How you orgarnize your work, would have a big impact on your productivity.
My dilemma — Starting of Data Analytics and Visualization boot-camp, was very exciting for me, it felt like a breath of fresh air. I was taking up a new challenge of changing career from stay-at-home mom and self-taught fashion designer out of my little home office, to the new adventurous world of Technology, but soon, it somewhat turned into a nightmare. Before I could even get started on my exercises in class, I was already drained with a lot less focus, just from the frustration of digging through layers of folders trying to find where my working file was. Which could have definitely been prevented.
I constantly had to revise my files regardless of the status, in order to meet certain project requirements. In turn, I constantly duplicated the files, not routine backup, but rather, because I was afraid of losing the different code, since I wanted to keep them for future use.
Where did my de-cluttering skills go? I was in constant fear that, if I deleted certain files or folders, and wanted them back, I just might not be able to locate them. That phobia, soon turned into my greatest frustration, I found myself spending a great deal of time going through duplicates of files, in order to find the current working file. Once I had had enough, I realized how much invaluable time and energy I had wasted.
So I started bringing me “the attentive eyes and ears”, to class from then on. It was still a challenge trying to wrap my head around the whole concept, because it’s a new career path and area of studies, but was definitely more fluid and less frustrating.
I started working from one folder per subject as usual, but this time, limiting the number of duplicates, in most cases, none.
For instance, I have the main folder
which contains two subfolders,
one with the main-work/content and the other with “stash”, for the code or information that I felt where relevant and may, later on, come in handy.
In an event where my stash file is gone and need to be rewritten, then that’s what Google and other search engines are meant for (“lots of resources all around”). Saving your work as you go along is a good habit to get into.
Depending on what you are working on, you would still need to organize things differently, as it is not always a one size fits all.
Find what works for you in terms of organizing your documents or necessary resources in order to prevent wasting time and energy.
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