Is it worth changing something?

Question

Career in IT

Hello. A first-year student is in touch. Last spring, I began to study the .NET platform (according to books, I didn’t do any projects, I was more worried about the exam and admission issues). Schildt, Troelsen, a little Richter.
In September, a remote part-time job turned up, where my knowledge turned out to be enough to start. The next few months I worked with WindowsForms + MSSQL Server. Recently, I started to feel like I was doing something wrong. The information from the books, for the most part, has disappeared (as unnecessary), and almost all the work is just to google the solution and remake it to your needs. Is this normal, or is the feeling that I'm degrading true? Perhaps it’s worth re-reading books or taking on new ones (but why, if I can’t apply knowledge at work? There is no time for pet projects, study + work + 3 hours on the road go all the time.) ?

Answer 1

Most of the information in the books has faded.

Because

as unnecessary

Quite. In order to learn everything - 10 lives will not be enough for you. Appreciated - the ability to quickly solve the tasks, even when they have never encountered similar ones.
Books on specific technologies, for example, on languages ​​​​are not worth re-reading, the information is most likely already outdated there)). For more general "deep" things - it makes perfect sense.
You need to understand why doing a pet project. It is important. Many people think that "I'll write my super cool solution and harmony will come to this world." Alas, this is not so, the probability that you will use your own experience at work is quite low and also proportionally depends on your "weight" in the company.

Answer 2

there are two obvious solutions that even an idiot understandably
needs to change work to a more difficult
one, but the second one, well, it’s dibilism to spend three hours on the road, move and just work more for three hours, this will cover the rent two or three times.