Looking Back to Year 2020

Year 2020 was not easy for all of us, The year is known as COVID-19 era, WHO declared it as a Pandemic, with lots of precautions, health issues. We all had to deal with mental health, regular lifestyles and most importantly with the professional career. We have now reached the tragic milestone of many deaths, and the family is suffering under an almost intolerable burden of loss. But the pandemic is much more than a health crisis, it’s also an uncommon socio-economic crisis. Stressing every one of the countries it touches, it has the potential to create devastating social, economic and political effects that will leave deep and longstanding scars. 

I am just trying to recall what I did in year 2020, my achievements, and losses everything I want to gather at one place, thats the only reason I am writing this. This post will be reference for my learning.

Due to the corona virus the company I was working with was not able to raise fund and as an impact of which we had to cut the resources and manpower. So I also Lost my job at the time and initially I thought it will be temporarily just the matter of few weeks or months that I will start working soon but honestly it took more than I thought. Every workplaces halt hiring and regular works, modality of workforce changes and consequences of which was not acceptable for many people like me who was searching for new opportunities. One thing that everyone appreciate out of all these negativity is that we get chance to live with our family.

Eventually after few months break, I resumed my work event with better expectations and roles.

Professional Achievements:

I am summarizing few achievements of this year. I have started new role for a new company. and apart from this I was selected as a Atlassian Community Leader (ACE) for Nepal as well.

Personal Achievements:

After ages, I have spent time with family. Relationships are more important now more than ever, gaps were filled with love and trust. appreciated the meaning of the companionship. With social distancing, we’ve all turned to technology for connections personally or for the job. 

Attended:

Attended Regional Scrum Gathering 2020 (RSGN 2020) online, which was 2-days event and full of learning and discussion with many professionals across the country. Participated in few of the Agile Nepal’s events those were suppose to organize monthly or bi monthly. As a ACE leader scheduled monthly events for ACE Kathmandu. Learned form international speakers about the new innovations.

Courses / Certifications

First few months were really productive for me in terms of learning and gettin certified online. Few of the courses I have learned during pandemic are:

Reading: 

Few readings this year:

Lost:

This year I lost my both Maternal Grandparents. Which was the biggest loss for us. They were the inspiration of life and reason to travel hometown. My mom’s extensive loss. Along with them my dad’s aunt also passed away. Third was our pet Tyson, he was dear to all and missed badly.

Few Memories through pictures.

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