Mid-May Update - Portfolio and Job Hunting

19 May 2016

About two weeks ago I wrote a blog post about my journey so far in the programming world. I now want to bring you another update on the things I’ve been focusing on over the past two weeks.

The job-prep checklist

It took me those two weeks to finish my portfolio. I realized a lot my creative energy needed to go into it since I wanted it to be my ‘ace’ during my job hunt. In the beginning, I came up with a list of things I thought I needed to get my portfolio looking good. The list looked like this:

After completing the above, I did a sort of ‘marathon project’ over the weekend and wrote a lightweight social media application using PHP. I learned a lot of PHP during the stint and now I have another useful tool (albeit a bit unsharpened) in the toolbox. It was a nice finish to the week.

Other projects

Oddly enough, I still haven’t finished the NodeJS chat app. A lot of my creative energy was focused on getting all the portfolio items done. However, I still learned a lot from the project and will enjoy working on it some more. I have also started up an interactive storytelling project – my first collaboration piece!

Let the games begin

And by games, I mean job-hunt. I feel like I’m prepared (read: confident) at last to begin seeking that full-time developer job I so desperately desire. The next two weeks should go something like this:

And more work!

Other things I plan on poking at during these next two weeks:

The climb up these mountains has proved fruitful. I see the summit. However, it’s still far off; I have to keep an even, steady pace. I can’t get too excited, or else I’ll exhaust myself before I reach the top. One step at a time!

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Written by David Rico on 19 May 2016