I decided to document my journey towards a career shift, on a previous post I vented out about my current struggles and my coping mechanisms. As a personal exercise I will be documenting my progress towards reshaping how I see myself and how I want to present to the market. Coming from a workflow automation background I want to expand into infrastructure automation and devops. For context, I am unemployed and I'm struggling to stay relevant on a market that caught me off guard.
Week 1
The job search
- I submitted way less job applications this week than my average, my first step is to reduce my scope, think on more tailored roles
- I have at least one interview scheduled per week for the remainder of the month, with the change of my application rate I am expecting this to substantially decrease
- I am on my way to register as a self-employed person. Handling my own taxes and stuff is a small price to pay from my point of view
- A developer contacted me to offer a what it seems a dream job, realistically speaking I have the seniority but lack some of the tech specifics, still gave it a shot.
- I put my pride out and applied for my previous role on the company that let me go one year ago. In the end I see them as a customer.
Upskill plan
- I am still hardly driven by low-code/no-code automation platforms, and while that seems to be on demand it also seems like an overcrowded path, still I am completing the n8n paths to have something more to show to current prospects
- I secured a spot on a google certification program, it looks promising
Achievements this week
- I learned the foundations of Ansible
- I built my first coding agent, with GPT Luna
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