I just hit the requirements for tenure to get access to my growth fund for the year, but it expires on Feb. 2 and the new years fund will come in and this $1k will disappear. I need help figuring out what to get in that time!<p>Related information: Anything I buy that is a course/subscription (pluralsight, lynda, etc) needs to show completion of a course by that deadline, and all purchases have to directly tie to growth in my day job. So, buying a book on Elixir when the tech stack at work is React/React Native/Golang would get rejected, but books on any of our stack or ios/android programming would be approved.<p>When the new year starts I plan on getting a subscription to linux academy to go through their aws cert courses, but really am not sure what to buy by Feb 2nd besides a pile of books. Really just feel like I'd get something on go, and all the top rec books (clean code, prag prog, etc).
So they've designed a growth fund that bans annual subscriptions?<p>Seems like you're just looking for a way to burn $1K at this point. There's lot of good usages but not in 15~ days with a hard cutoff for whatever you buy.<p>I'd just get an annual pluralsight sub after Feb 2nd, and then you can even learn things in your own time unrelated to your job (it isn't per course, it is all you can eat, like Netflix).
So you can buy books on stuff that you (presumably) already know, but not anything that would help your growth as a professional? Seems a little backwards.
how about AWS/Azure/GCloud prepaid credits ( for work-related-research, of course.... ) ?
buy it and leave it there for when you need a lab online.