https://ishabbi.tech/topics/journal/Recent content in Journal on Ish's BlogHugoenhttps://ishabbi.tech/posts/the-problem-with-my-username/Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:45:00 +0530https://ishabbi.tech/posts/the-problem-with-my-username/<p>&ldquo;<em><strong>rookieInTraining!!</strong></em>&rdquo; For years, I&rsquo;ve been using this username on my GitHub, Stack Overflow, and even this website. Initially, I had planned to keep it as &ldquo;<em>the-rookie-in-training</em>,&rdquo; but I dropped the &ldquo;<em>the</em>&rdquo; and removed the dashes to keep it short (how the mind works in your 20s).</p> <p>What was sometimes confusing to people reading my username was a deep ideology to which I related—something that shaped my thinking when I started my career in the industry. &ldquo;The-Rookie-In-Training&rdquo; was supposed to capture a philosophy: no matter how well you excel in professional or personal areas of life, there will always be a new aspect that humbles you and makes you feel like a rookie. Only by learning from these experiences and restarting your training toward mastery can you grow. I kept this to signal curiosity and a willingness to learn in any phase of my life.</p>