One week later - I'm Back, Job Hunting & back to work
I'm back
Hey everybody, I am back!
I'm sorry for not giving news, the end of DBC program was ... strange. You spend 9 weeks averaging on 85 hours a week in Dev Bootcamp, coding, and when it stops and the building is closed (we moved that same weekend), your life feels... empty.
So on the next day, for the weekend, I slept, ate, and slept again. Then I coded a bit, refactored some old things, cleaned readmes and tests, and that was it. I think I can safely say that it was at least in the top 5 of my most unproductive weekends ever. But then, maybe it's just the contrast with the 9 others before that...
After that, on that tuesday evening, Thuy arrived, with her sister and her sister's boyfriend. I could spend hours, or even days describing the next week, but let me try to sum it up :
We walked all around San Francisco, did a lot of touristy things in the city, biked on the golden gate bridge, went to Oakland Murmur, and a thousand times to the piers. All in all, it was a hard week (13 miles walks everyday...) but a very fun and interesting one. I discovered the city and feel much better about it now, I spent all of my time with my wonderful fiancee, I showed her everything she wanted to see, and some things that I wanted to show her, showed her DBC and the people... Perfect!
Plus, I now have a crazy tan, like I spent the week in Hawaii haha.
Job Hunting
Now I'm back to job hunting. Once you get out, your next target is a corresponding job!
I'm looking for a company that would allow me to learn and show the world what I can do, like I keep on saying in that blog. Discovering is my thing, and writing meaningful code is its little brother!
My plan right now is to join as many meetups as I can to be able to show what I can do, to work on interesting personal projects that can help in that goal too, and try and contact the people I can find who can help me with that.
I would rather stay in SF, or in the US, but I moved, and I'll move if need be!
In case you are interested or know somebody who could be, here is
my linked in : http://www.linkedin.com/in/quentindevauchelle
my github : https://github.com/Qt-dev
Back to work
I now HAVE to code, it's in my blood! ;)
So, I took that need for proof of my skills for a good enough excuse to go back on the projects I had not had time for before.
So I started working on:
the Js version of my android app : Github,
I refactored and cleaned our gem : Github / Rubygems,
I started working on a scheduler for Thuy and her airport schedule : Github
If you have ideas about projects I could join, just send a mail to [email protected], I'll be happy to work on them!