Learn

Rafael Nunes
Jul 25, 2017 · 2 min read

Learn.

Time. Technology. Processes. Roles. All invented.

Don’t let our own inventions prevent you from being amazing. Learn, read, explore, experiment, be curious, evolve!

Your role is just something that defines your fundamental tasks on a daily basis, but not who you are and not what drives you. Accept 2017 and that now everything is multi. Multicloud, multitask, multimedia, multieverything.

Embrace the speed and that our brains are not made to execute tasks based on roles: Developer, Architect, Intranet Specialist, whatever it comes. We can do more and therefore achieve more.

I wish I had the source for that, but, once, I heard that there are in average other 300 people with the same profile as you out there. Think about yourself for a second. The stuff you like, do, and think, make you stand out in the crowd. Well, there’s literally hundreds of people just like you.

Maybe it’s the millennial in me writing this, but I see that people are thinking less in roles and more in purpose. What can be achieved, what is the potential, what is the value for the society, what is our place in the path to success. At least that’s how I measure my career success and that is what I believe in.

Believe in something and not in a role. Be proud. Achieve. Learn. Don’t work for the weekend, instead just see the weekend as 2 days where you have a different kind of fun, just not at the workplace.

Want an actual example of what is working with what you love, not expecting weekends to come?

When I was a kid, I did not use to play on the streets with other kids. I was home, unmounting and messing with all the Windows 95 (Pentium 386. I grow up in Brazil, stuff used to get there several years later after US release) configurations, developing HTML pages on FrontPage and playing Castle of Wolfenstein 3D.

In 2007, with 18 years old, I got my first job working with what used to be my passion.

Believe me, it’s easier when you love it.

Learn.

Rafael Nunes

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Brazilian living in Munich, Germany since 2014. My world is O365, Azure, SharePoint, Nintex, PowerApps, Flow, BizApps and productivity

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