My path also took a bit longer, I started in March 2020 part time and switched to full time in module 2. Life was thrown at me while I was in module 4. In stead of finishing in September 2020 I started my 3rd cohort (full time again), before they revoked my access to the curriculum I forked all the labs and copied all the lesson material in a word document for mod 4.
As I joined a new cohort I had to wait until December 2020 for them to catch up with me. Meanwhile I had plenty of time to work on my mod4 project.
Mod5 was a disaster again, life was thrown at me once again and I had to rely on public wifi and charge points in the mall to complete the module. Needless to say I was unable to complete my mod5 project on time.
Because of what was thrown at me the materials just didn't sink in.
I was given another 2 weeks to complete, but disaster struck again in the form of the 'Texas Freeze Storm'.
Due to COVID the library was already closed and now because of no power after the storm the mall was closed for almost 2 weeks. Driving around in your car to look for some available public wifi doesn't create a very suitable learning environment.
So it looked like this would be my dead end. I understand that for Flatiron it is a business too and they have to set certain limits to call it quits. But after a good word of my last cohort lead 'Nancy' I was allowed yet again to join another cohort that started in December 2020 (actually was given 2 options).
Because of work I was not able to join all online lectures, but the matter was sinking in this time. Biggest problem was to come up with a subject for the project as I started all over again, but at the end it was the same as I started before.
A cohort assistant 'Chris' spend many hours with me in the evenings when I had time to work on my project. Still was late with turning in the project, and on top of that the first available assessment opportunity was after the final deadline.
But I made it on first try (end of May 2021), I myself was not impressed with the project. But the assessor thought different about that.
Than came the career services, as I only had a job I did part time and now had to do full time to be able to get around and being a 24/7 on call job I was already afraid of matching the requirements of the career coaching. Had not understood that those requirements became active once the job start date was defined. First week after the start date I already failed in that, okay so no longer 'money back guarantee'. At least 1 sorrow less and more time to focus on the other things.
During that time I also had already started to apply left and right, but 3 weeks after the job search start date I landed a job.
Starting it in another weeks time.
I also started doing some codewars kata's in Ruby as that had been the longest time ago. And it sure turned out to be rusty, but after a day things became natural again.
In the bootcamp we showed our skills and I think we will be able to pick up another language as it comes across our path when needed.
Hi John! Thanks for the comment! I feel like I remember you from "Nancy's" full-time cohort in September-November 2020. I was also in that cohort haha. I am glad you were able to figure everything out and push through. Congrats!!
Congrats.
My path also took a bit longer, I started in March 2020 part time and switched to full time in module 2. Life was thrown at me while I was in module 4. In stead of finishing in September 2020 I started my 3rd cohort (full time again), before they revoked my access to the curriculum I forked all the labs and copied all the lesson material in a word document for mod 4.
As I joined a new cohort I had to wait until December 2020 for them to catch up with me. Meanwhile I had plenty of time to work on my mod4 project.
Mod5 was a disaster again, life was thrown at me once again and I had to rely on public wifi and charge points in the mall to complete the module. Needless to say I was unable to complete my mod5 project on time.
Because of what was thrown at me the materials just didn't sink in.
I was given another 2 weeks to complete, but disaster struck again in the form of the 'Texas Freeze Storm'.
Due to COVID the library was already closed and now because of no power after the storm the mall was closed for almost 2 weeks. Driving around in your car to look for some available public wifi doesn't create a very suitable learning environment.
So it looked like this would be my dead end. I understand that for Flatiron it is a business too and they have to set certain limits to call it quits. But after a good word of my last cohort lead 'Nancy' I was allowed yet again to join another cohort that started in December 2020 (actually was given 2 options).
Because of work I was not able to join all online lectures, but the matter was sinking in this time. Biggest problem was to come up with a subject for the project as I started all over again, but at the end it was the same as I started before.
A cohort assistant 'Chris' spend many hours with me in the evenings when I had time to work on my project. Still was late with turning in the project, and on top of that the first available assessment opportunity was after the final deadline.
But I made it on first try (end of May 2021), I myself was not impressed with the project. But the assessor thought different about that.
Than came the career services, as I only had a job I did part time and now had to do full time to be able to get around and being a 24/7 on call job I was already afraid of matching the requirements of the career coaching. Had not understood that those requirements became active once the job start date was defined. First week after the start date I already failed in that, okay so no longer 'money back guarantee'. At least 1 sorrow less and more time to focus on the other things.
During that time I also had already started to apply left and right, but 3 weeks after the job search start date I landed a job.
Starting it in another weeks time.
I also started doing some codewars kata's in Ruby as that had been the longest time ago. And it sure turned out to be rusty, but after a day things became natural again.
In the bootcamp we showed our skills and I think we will be able to pick up another language as it comes across our path when needed.
Good luck on the job search.
Hi John! Thanks for the comment! I feel like I remember you from "Nancy's" full-time cohort in September-November 2020. I was also in that cohort haha. I am glad you were able to figure everything out and push through. Congrats!!
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