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First Week

Jonesey712 — Sat, 09 May 2020 00:40:24 +0000

So, first week at the new job. I am training virtually, of course. The first couple of days was mostly admin stuff and the rest of the week was learning their processes and the start of me learning WordPress, PHP, and setting up some of my connections. Overall, good fun! It looks like I may not actually touch code for another week, but that's fine. I don't want to mess anything up. Haha.

On the LaunchCode side, last day of Teaching Fellow Training was Wednesday and class starts Monday. This is virtual as well and through Zoom (which I've only started using 2 weeks ago). A few of us did a small meet up to learn how to do some of the things in Zoom that we didn't know. Now I feel more comfortable with it. Now to get more comfortable with explaining what's being learned...

Gonna have a restful weekend and be ready to tackle next weekend full force!

A Bit of Progress

Jonesey712 — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 02:38:33 +0000

So some of you may have seen my post a few weeks ago about having an interview with several people at a company I applied to. Good news, if you haven't gone back to that post, I got the job!

In this weird time where people are being furloughed and laid off from their jobs I feel a bit bad about celebrating this win. Not just because I got this job. I also applied to be a Teaching Fellow with LaunchCode and got that as well! I am now one week out from training with LaunchCode and two weeks out from starting the new "real" job. I wanted to be able to post this win on Facebook and LinkedIn, but I feel it's better not to. At least I can post it here.

Enough about the psychology that's happening in my brain. For both jobs I have to learn JavaScript, Angular, PHP, and Drupal. I'm excited to dive into these, especially since I've already been seriously working my way through JavaScript on Codecademy and through LaunchCode (I'm a graduate of LC101 with LaunchCode. My cohort was the last one to do Python paired with Java. Now it's JavaScript and Java and we retain our access to all of the coursework) since about February. I'm catching on pretty well and have made it my plan to get through all the standard JavaScript by my start date with the main job. I'm doing pretty well attempting to work through something everyday.

I'm really excited to do both of these jobs and a little nervous as both will be virtual until (let's be real) the government/my state says we can return to the office/classroom (oh my god this is getting confusing. Sorry!). I wanted to try to track my progress and even thought about making a YouTube channel for it, but when I started I was also doing rehearsals for a play that wound up getting cancelled. So maybe I'll try to do it for Angular, PHP, and Drupal.

Thank you for reading my ramblings! Hope everyone has a great weekend!

First Post Follow-Up

Jonesey712 — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 16:50:22 +0000

To follow-up on my first post, the interview went well! The team really liked me and now I'm just waiting for the next steps!

Update:
So I made ^this^ tiny post already knowing the outcome of the the interview. I GOT THE JOB!! I didn't post it just yet as I didn't have a start date at the time as, you know, #WFH, #CoronaVirus and all that. However, I have my start date and I am freaking out already, but still very excited.

My apologies to anyone I left wondering what was up.

I suppose my next post will likely be about my first day

A Second Interview!

Jonesey712 — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 13:52:41 +0000

I got a second interview with a company I applied to and would really like to work for. This interview is very different from what I've ever done. I was told it was going to be a group interview, but its actually a series of 30 min interviews with the executive level employees, including the CEO. I'm planning on trying to do a bit of research on each person, but I'm pretty nervous about this one.

I'm trying to remind myself that the worse they can say is no in the end, but this is also part of my career change. So even though not a lot is riding on it, I feel like like A LOT is riding on this opportunity.

This is my first post. Thank you for killing your time to read it!