--- title: I Don’t Want a New Life. I Just Want to Grow Into This One. description: A personal reflection from a self-taught full-stack developer who transitioned from a biomedical engineering background, exploring feelings of restlessness... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-don-t-want-a-new-life-i-just-want-to-grow-into-this-one--oxytzup8a twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I Don’t Want a New Life. I Just Want to Grow Into This One. | daily.dev og:description: A personal reflection from a self-taught full-stack developer who transitioned from a biomedical engineering background, exploring feelings of restlessness... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-don-t-want-a-new-life-i-just-want-to-grow-into-this-one--oxytzup8a og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/OXYTZup8a.png og:image:alt: I Don’t Want a New Life. I Just Want to Grow Into This One. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I Don’t Want a New Life. I Just Want to Grow Into This One. **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal reflection from a self-taught full-stack developer who transitioned from a biomedical engineering background, exploring feelings of restlessness despite gratitude for career and life progress. The piece muses on the difference between wanting more and wanting better, the nostalgia for being a beginner, comparing oneself to one's past self rather than others, and choosing to grow within one's existing life rather than starting over. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/i-don-t-want-a-new-life-i-just-want-to-grow-into-this-one--oxytzup8a) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"I Don’t Want a New Life. I Just Want to Grow Into This One.","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-don-t-want-a-new-life-i-just-want-to-grow-into-this-one--oxytzup8a","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-don-t-want-a-new-life-i-just-want-to-grow-into-this-one--oxytzup8a"},"datePublished":"2026-09-03T00:42:19.876Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T07:32:46.430Z","description":"A personal reflection from a self-taught full-stack developer who transitioned from a biomedical engineering background, exploring feelings of restlessness...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/33705c7c8c42a1806027348232f9c36a?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/33705c7c8c42a1806027348232f9c36a?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Medium","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Medium","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/medium","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-don-t-want-a-new-life-i-just-want-to-grow-into-this-one--oxytzup8a","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"career","timeRequired":"PT10M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Medium","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"I Don’t Want a New Life. I Just Want to Grow Into This One."}]} ```