What are your goals for week 46 of 2024?

It's week 46 of 2024. Today is Veteran's Day, thank you to all that have served. Many people are off but not all. Government offices and banks are closed. Schools may or may not be closed.

An example of how learning to code can change daily life. While in coding bootcamp one of my fellow students got a job before graduation. He's a veteran and said this was the first time he had Veteran's Day off.

What are your goals for the week?

• What are you building?
• What are you working on this week?
• Are you attending any meet ups this week?
• Is your office closed for Veteran's Day?

This Week's Goals

• Continue Job Search.
• Project work. Need to get back to coding React.
• Blog.
• Events.
  • I don't know of any local events this week. The agile meet up is off for the month. Another local one has already said they're taking Nov and Dec off from meetings.
  • Thursday Virtual Coffee
• Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.
• November is Virtual Coffee's blogging challenge. As a group we are aiming to write 50,000 words. Read my post form the Virtual Coffee Group here on DEV.
  • My personal goal is to beat my word count from last year. Count to beat is 5,517.

How I did last week

• [✅] Continue Job Search.
• [✅] Project work. * Content update. Worked on pictures from a singing Duo. They played their last show and are retiring.
• [❌] Blog. Only my goals article.
• Events.
  • [✅] Wednesday Dads in Tech
  • [❌] Wednesday Job Fair - Didn't attend it was the same time as the Dads in Tech. They listed open positions beforehand with a breakdown off remote and onsite. There wasn't a good match. Plus I needed to see friends after Tuesday's election result.
  • [❌] Thursday Virtual Coffee. Conflict.
  • [✅] Thursday Night Dallas Software (virtual) Night of JavaScript. This was an eventful meetup. It's hybrid so I watched from Home. WiFi and tech issues made the onsite group change rooms twice. But great job from the team keeping it going and keeping the virtual part of the meet up.
• [✅] Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.
• [✅] Virtual Coffee Challenge. This is our blogging challenge. As a group we are aiming to write 50,000 words this month. I wrote about it in the Virtual Coffee DEV group.
  • Personal goal is to beat my word count from last year. Count to beat is 5,517.
  • Progress 1,624 / 5,517
• Pack for short trip * The art show we were going to attend was cancelled. So no trip. Introverts usually like cancelled events, but we spent a lot of time prepping and buying supplies.

Monthly Challenge: 50,000 Word Blogging Challenge

Chris Jarvis for Virtual Coffee ・ Nov 1

#writing #challenge #community #codenewbie

Tell us your Goals for the week

Your turn what do you plan to do this week?

• What are you building?
• What are you working on?
• Are you attending any meet ups this week?

Cover image is my LEGO photography of an Aarakocra Ranger from D&D aiming at a target.

-$JarvisScript git commit -m "Thank you Veterans."

Comments

[Steffen H. Nielsen]

Converting data for 7 different banks, so they can upgrade their CMS platforms next month.

[Ben Halpern]

Wow