My Journey of "Getting out of my Comfort Zone"!
Tags: motivation, opensource, watercooler
Published: 2020-12-15 17:56:26

A lot of you have things in mind like: Can I do this? Can I learn this tech in this much amount of time? Can I even start a YouTube channel? Can I write technical blogs? Can I add some value to someone's life?
Well not here to brag here, but I just want to share my experience, and maybe you feel motivated somehow and apply that. And if you do, then please let me know, I will be so happy, that I did something good.

Whatever happened this year was not a surprise for all of us, I was in my final year, and soon I was going to start with my exams, and then I would be a graduate, and start my career in tech as an Engineer. 
But who thought that something new, and exciting is already planned for me. 

## Tough to Start: Took challenges

For the first month, I just binged-watch shows and wasted some time, but then I thought I can take advantage of this time and can improve more things, I started attending workshops, but I always wanted to teach people, I tried that too **"FAILED"**, why?
I don't really know, but I was doing it for free. Anyway, I got somehow demotivated, because people will take you for granted forever if you don't show them your value. 

So, after that, I participated in my first Hackathon. You heard it right, I was going to complete my graduation but never took part in any Hackathon. Why? Because I was so afraid of the word itself. But I don't know, I took this challenge, and yeah I didn't win, but there were a lot of learnings.

After that, another challenge was already waiting for me, and that was writing technical blogs. 
Woah, what a name? Does that scare you as well? Well, this did a quite good job scaring me for a long time.
But there was a competition going on called **Blogger' week** by **Tesseract Coding**, and I was like, Hell yeah, I am going to do that, the worst that can happen is I will fail, be it.

You won't believe that I got the first position in that, shocking right!!

Not even that, It got published on Analytics Vidhya Medium publication. 
{% medium https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/taking-images-in-docker-container-54ca84ac0d1e %}

## My first talk in a Conference

After that [Rohit](https://twitter.com/RohitGuha96) approached me to write some blog, so yeah, I was confident to write but the confusion was, about what? I didn't know about the tech well at that time, so I learned and wrote about Understanding Azure DevOps.
{% link https://dev.to/seema1711/understanding-azure-devops-j2i %}
Let me know if you like it or not.

Then I got my first offer for speaking at a conference. That day was huge for me. I was nervous too, but I managed, and it went well. 
{% youtube t8nw7jU1gds %}

## Started Open Source Contributions

After this, I started to explore **Open Source**, how to contribute to that, well it wasn't easy, it got me a full month just to understand what a pull request is, and how to make one.
But yeah, I did, I practiced a lot. 
Amazing thing is that I got to know about [GitLab](https://gitlab.com/), and the Hackathon, I tried to contribute, it was a lot confusing, trust me, when I say this, I was just a newbie, and it took a lot of time to understand the whole point of open source contributions, why?
There was no one to guide me, which later led to my [YouTube](https://youtube.com/BashWoman) channel, I will discuss that later.
But yeah, I made my **FIRST MERGE REQUEST** on **GitLab**.
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```Well, you will think that is there only wins? No, definitely not, I had lots of failures too, but I want to share these right now. :D```

## Started my YouTube channel! 

![YT Bash Woman](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/wco4hd87cfs5rili2ij0.png)

Then came my [YouTube channel](https://youtube.com/BashWoman)!!!

**AIM OF MY CHANNEL**

1. Give back to the community.
2. Help someone.
3. Collaborate.

This year was full of taking risks, why risks? 
Because, I am a person who likes to be in her comfort zone, and this year I got out of it. 
So, if you reading this, please get out of your comfort zone, it will not be easy, but you can do that! 
I always say, "If I can, then you definitely can."
I was the laziest person you will ever know, and now I am working a lot, like in my whole life, I haven't worked this much.

## WINS

1. I got to help so many people this year, that's the best thing I could do for someone.
2. Got out of my comfort zones: wrote blogs, made/making videos.
3. Got 1k+ SUBSCRIBERS! Support me if you like my content.

I have missed many of my wins, but these helped me to get more. 
So, JUST START!!
All the very best.

## GOALS FOR 2021

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I hope I will be able to do that. Support me if you want/can.

You can connect with me on:
🎥[YouTube](https://youtube.com/BashWoman)
⚒[LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/seemasaharan)
🧵[Twitter](https://twitter.com/SeemaSaharan5)
✍[Hashnode](https://bashwoman.hashnode.dev)
📷[Instagram](https://instagram.com/bashwoman)