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A New Year for Me

Making this year and the years after better starting now.

Spencer Pollock
3 min readFeb 6, 2020
Photo by Roven Images on Unsplash

Hello and welcome to a new year! 2019 was quite a journey, and I’m sure you’ve all walked away from the year with new stories, tales, and memories. Be them good or bad, learn from them. The things you did right, wrong, or a little bit of both.

I had quite the time. It was a quest of finding myself, and while I’m not done, I’ve certainly begun and I’m excited. Last year I completed my degree in Computer Systems focusing on Games Development. I’m quite proud of myself for completing the achievement. My head still spins because my life plans have only ever lead up to this point, and now that I’ve completed that marathon, I’m looking around for the next.

The world’s almost gone gray really. If I’m being blunt, I lost myself for quite a time while finishing up the last year. As I said, I only had the “complete school” on my life task list for a while, and since striking it off and becoming the “programmer” I wanted to be, I only then realized how broad of a term that is. Narrowing my focus, enjoying my time outside of school, and coming to terms with the fact that I had no idea how much I didn’t and still don’t know is a jarring slap.

At a time in my life like this, I’ve gone back to basics that have been drilled into me over and over again. Keep…

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Spencer Pollock
Spencer Pollock

Written by Spencer Pollock

💻Software Engineer | Game Developer | DevOps | Project Enthusiest | Technical Writer — Working to make things simpler. I’ll tell you my story as it unfolds 📖

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