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Post Grad Action Plan

Job Search Plan

Month 1 Goals

  • Learn React.js, Node.js
  • Brush up on Ruby, JavaScript, development basics
  • Figure out where to start and how to get interviews.
  • Research tech companies. Particularly Health Tech Companies.
  • Email People.
  • Stay positive, don't be dissuaded.

Strategy

Coding

  • Online tutorials and Frontend.turing.io lessons/projects
  • Create online portfolio using React.js: implement blog posts
  • Complete Turing School challenges in Ruby and JavaScript. Already started here
  • Go over interview practice session questions and get full answers to them.
  • Maybe dive into Java/.Net technologies. I am still on VertaFore's list of condidates.

Professional Development

  • Despite all the PD sessions at Turing, I feel like I'm lost.
  • Meet with Meg
  • Do more research every day.
  • Find people and events to go to (probe meg about good resources for this OTHER than meetuos.com)
  • apply, apply, apply
  • Post-application strategems with Meg

Work Week

Every Day

  • Coding: 5 hours
  • Outreach: 1.5 hours
  • Research: 1.5 hours
  • Networking: 2 hours
  • YOu may have noticed this is more than 8 hours a day, but I plan to spend a lot of time coding.

Job Search Cut-off

  • When I have an offer that I am happy with and ready to accept.

Goals

Daily

  • stick to the schedule, enjoy distractions from time-to-time but not too often (probably the greatest challenge)

Weekly

  • Have cold-outreach contacts discovered and emails boomeranged by end of sunday night. Boomeranged emails will go out at 8:50 AM the following monday morning.
  • Think of new side projects to construct in new tech stacks and existing skills.

Monthly

  • Find success before I run out of funds. AKA July. Above all: Listen to Steph, don't get depressed, and stay focused.

Barriers

  • Apathy: repeated dejection can lead to defeatist attitude. Avoid.
  • Outside distractions: Video Games, TV, the weather, ETC. These are good for mental health but are real productivity killers. I must be disciplined.
  • Comparisons: As my classmates/friends all get jobs around me, I need to remember it is not a competition, to be happy for them, and that my time will come.
  • Mostly just fear and ignorance will hold me back: A fear of the future, and uncertainty of how to proceed when not having an interview yet. To be recified by meeting with Meg a couple times, soon.

Longterm Career Plan

What

  • I will have a job in software development learning new skills, abilities, technologies, and problem solving skills.
  • I will be married and own a home

How Long

  • Unless I really, really, really like it, I will spend up to three years with first company. Then I will look for Leadership opportunities. I am a good team member and I feel that once my skills are literally and conceptually strong, I will be ready to get paid the big bucks and lead teams of developers to create and maintain awesome apps.
  • If I am unsuccessful in finding a leadership opportunity, I will find a senior software engineering job and continue to cultivate and improve my skills.

Where

  • Preferrably CO, but my Fiancè is excited about the idea of living in NY, CT, or FL, also.
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