InternConf

Professional Learning

If you're ever the smartest person in a room.

You should leave that room.

Meetups

• meetup.com
• Free
• Three kinds of people:
  • Passionate People
  • People looking for Passionate people
  • People with Something to Share

Clubs

• Free
• Good on Resumes
• Good Speakers
• Good Connections

Conferences

• Some are free (PyOhio, BarCampGR)
• Some work will help pay for
• Almost always cheaper for Students
• Becoming a "Conference Junkie" happens
  • Technical skills
  • Professional Connections
  • Soft Skills

Further Education

• Colleges
  • Learn for Mastery, not a grade
• Certifications
  • Master a technology, get a piece of paper!

Online (& internal) Learning

• We have a pluralsight login!
• Dev Lecture Series!
• atlas/bm-resources/books
  • Best Practices
  • Languages
  • Domain Specific Languages
  • Testing
  • Things not directly related to work
• Join the Grand Rapids Slack (mostly tech people)

  • http://slackin-grandrapids.herokuapp.com/

Non-Categorizable

• Internal Slack
  • :rubytip:
  • :javatip:
  • :kotlintip:
  • :pythontip:
  • :vmwaretip:
• .gitconfig
• .bash_profile
• Useful aliases!

Wrapping Up

• Why? Because the world won't sit still for you.
• How? With resources that are all around you.