Happy New Year / Life update
I’m about a week late, but Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a very nice Festichristmahannukwanzicas season. Mine was delightful. Everybody came home for the holidays. My mother gave us all animal t-shirts.
I shall cherish it forever.
In other news, I’m still searching for a job. A lot of people from my cohort are still looking, too. Hopefully, now that the holidays are out of the way, things will pick up. I think one issue I’m encountering, though, is that there don’t seem to be many entry level or junior developer positions. Seems like companies don’t want to take the time to invest in and train folks anymore. Does everyone really have to come in with mid-career experience?? I don’t know, but I have hope that I’ll find something. I have to face every day like this dog:
Anyway, in my last post I said that I would update you on my portfolio. Update: it’s been done. Check it out on milacodes.github.io. It took me a while because I built it without the use of a front-end framework. I wanted to see how the image carousel, text animations, and all that jazz truly worked before I started using shortcuts. I think it turned out alright. Now that I’m done with that, I’ve started a couple courses on Udemy in order to learn some new skills and stay up on the skills I already have. I bought like 5 courses. I got a little too excited when I saw all the topics I could learn. They were on sale though, don’t worry. New Years Resolution sale for the win.
Me, when I saw the deals on Udemy’s site.
So, that’s about it. I spend my days finding jobs, filling out applications, watching videos on Udemy and continuing to build. There isn’t much of a schedule and I end up working til pretty late at night. It’s midnight as I’m writing this right now. I usually always feel like I had a great day since I got a lot of work done, but that thought always fades when I go to bed... Staring at this bright laptop screen so late into the night is really messing with my sleep schedule. Last night I went to bed at midnight. The last time that I saw on the clock was 3am.
It’s pretty terrible. But when I’m laying in bed, all I think about are sites that I want to build. Or techniques I want to learn. Or features I want to implement. I'm always thinking about code. So, I guess it’s not all bad. Or it is. Either one.