Career: My teammate took an extended vacation over the holidays, leaving me the whole project. I did make some progress, just enough where I'm not embarrassed to hand back the work to teammate again. Now that I don't have to worry about the whole project, I can focus on making faster progress on just my part of the work.
Life: We mostly stuck close to home for the holidays and it was honestly nice. We had a handful of dinners with family and friends, had a couple nice date nights, and relaxed with some quiet nights in. I had my annual physical and eye checkups, partner got his shots and dental cleaning, and we've scheduled the car maintenance for next week. We tried looking for houses over the holidays but there were honestly no units of interest so we used the time for other things instead. The house front is heating up now that everyone's back from vacations and we'll be going to open houses this weekend.
We're planning to stay at my in-laws place as there are a couple weddings of close family coming up. I hope omicron dies down soon and we can have weddings without worrying about staying healthy.
Financial: We both contributed to our traditional IRAs and will do the backdoor roth conversion soon. I researched if it's better to buy a house when interest rates are low and home prices are high or when interest rates are high and home prices are low. But realistically, I think home prices in this area will not decrease even if interest rates increase because there's just so little supply compared to the demand. So I concluded that if we find a house we like then we should buy it ASAP, and I stepped up my contributions to our house search accordingly.
Health & wellness: I have 3 days left in the Combat HIIT program with 5 days left in the Xpress Tone addon. I'm pretty sure my mom and partner abandoned their programs and moved on to general stretching and classpass, respectively.
P. S. : Leaving this note as a reminder to myself that I'm not special. I'm exactly 6.5 years out of college and have pretty much followed the path laid out here to where I am now: https://andrenader.substack.com/p/the-new-grad-faang-engineers-path.
Small tweaks to make the journey my own: I've never gotten promoted and have gotten two half-promotions by job hopping. Also I'm coupled up so have a better quality of life without increasing expenses too much. |