Night school.

I’m one of those old farts that need to go back to school to learn new things to keep up with the world.

I just signed up for an Intro to SQL and Database Management class at UCLA Extension.

I’m one of those and there’s no shame in it.

Growth. Learning.

If you aren’t learning, you aren’t living.

Personal growth is important, and this will up my game and my desirability in the job market, if I ever decide to do a career change.

Now, this doesn’t mean that I’m looking to quit my job or am looking for a career change.

It’s all about work.

I find myself tasked with more responsibilities on certain projects and there are things that I’m uncomfortable doing because I lack the required skill set to do the job well. I can half ass it, but I don’t want to.

Hence the class.

Depending on how things go, I think I’ll continue to more of the advance stuff, to eventually programming. It just makes sense and something that I was kind of interested in anyway.

Looking back, the root of all of this is the job and the frustration and sometimes inadequacies that I feel of not being able to do something on my own and requiring help from others.

We all know how much I hate asking people for help and relying on other people, especially when it comes to my projects.

Delay delay delay.

Fun times.

I don’t know what to expect, but I think it’s something I’m looking forward to.

It gets me out of the house and it keeps my brain working and I think for me, that’s the important part.

You’re never too old to go back to school.

I hear a lot of people say that all the time and it’s true. You are never too old to go back to school and learn new things, whether it is to keep up with the world or to just exercise your mind.

Learning is a great thing.

I’m looking forward to it.

Can’t wait.

I feel calm.

Tranquil, possibly.

Any anxiety that I had about this data project dissipated.

Why? When?

Maybe it was when I decided that we should house the data instead of trying to force fit all the data back to Prisma and SMI.

There was no easy way for that to happen and I was stressing out trying to figure a solution.

Thankfully I learned about the RAI team taking over all the digital data for their purposes and we can leverage them for help and things just snowballed.

It makes things easier. It just makes sense.

I feel good about this.

I feel calm about this.

I just need to make it happen.

Let’s see.