How I adapted to the Andela Change!
The all-anticipated Change Dole!(meaning “compulsory change”) — is really the slogan of the today’s administration. Well, Change is a const that doesn’t change. Change comes in several ways. It could be good, it could be bad. Well, what matters in life is the ability to manage change.
“ it is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.” — Charles Darwin
Change is key to survival. The ability to adapt to changes in the environment, body, economy and work is a required arm in every man’s skill arsenal. Adaptability shows the ability to learn from experience, and improves the fitness of the learner as a competitor to work better in some situation or for some purposes different from his areas of expertise.
To cut the long story short, my experience of the Andela Boot Camp over the past week has been really a true test of adaptability. The fast paced nature and challenging learning outcomes for each day of the boot camp has been blood draining. I have never had the need to push myself so hard to achieve anything and concurrently be at my best. But surviving at Andela brought the need!.
I had to change my sleeping pattern in order to meet the deadlines of submission for daily outcomes and project challenges. This reminds me of challenge one — the development of our PostIt app in HTML and CSS. It took a lot of me. I never really liked front-end designs — I was more of the back-end guy. Although i have experience in front-end designs, I never really liked working with them. To make matters complicated, we were required to use just bootstrap *crying*. I would have preferred Materialize CSS.
Do you see the idea behind my story?…
Well, You don’t always get what you want and you have to make do with what you have — that’s Adaptation. I had to adapt as I wanted my dream of becoming an Andela fellow come true. I had to collaborate, ask and learn from people.
My relating with the nice boot campers from different spheres of the country was also a BIG CHANGE! I had to make friends, luckily I did — Michael Ozoemena
“The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.” ― Martha Stewart
By nature I am an ambivert so I had not really interacted with a lot of people and as they say:
“programmers are always lonely because they are too busy coding and don’t interact except with their computers and the four wall of their workspaces” — me
I have been well prepared to adapt to more changes that i may encounter inside and outside my work environment. Andela is bae! This adapting skill will increase my performance in solution building.
“Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.” — Richard Branson
I think with this few points of mine, I have been able to narrate my experience at Andela Boot Camp Cycle XXIV and also share with you that the need to adapt to change in life endeavors is second to none.
“Writing is a journey into the unknown.” ― Charlie Kaufman
