Assess your habits from week 1: how did you spend your time this past week? What was effective in your habits? What could be more effective? What steps will you take to make that happen?
This past week I was able to spend a lot of time with family and friends which was something I hadn’t much prioritized during the module. Habits I did keep up though were making my bed every morning and working on code problems each day. It could have been more effective if I was in my own space and on my own clock. Now that I’m back in my own space I’m super excited to get back to my habits.
Write a draft of your professional story here as 1-2 paragraphs. Focus on answering the questions who are you, why are you here, and what’s next? Consider how to talk about your motives and values, the turning points that led to your career change, and what you envision for yourself going forward.
In 2020 I graduated first in my class with an Industrial Engineering degree from Texas Tech University. I had a job lined up and life was moving along swimmingly. Covid hit, I lost my job and realized I had a couple options. 1) Keep up the job search - even though most places were in a hiring freeze. 2) Cry, play victim, and wait for it to pass 3) Use what skills I had to learn something new - to better myself. I found Turing, I knew a friend that had immense success with it. I researched it and found that my skills as an Engineer aligned very well with the front-end program. To be honest, I worked with MatLab some in college and hated it. I avoided coding at all costs. Then I realized that I hated it because I didn’t understand it. I am not the type of person that likes to hear no, be told she can’t do something, or not be able to figure out a problem. As soon as I started looking at coding as a problem I didn’t understand I realized I had to learn it. Throughout my Turing time I have also realized, I absolutely love it. It’s problem after problem solving each of them to create something quite awesome. Code surprises me and challenges me everyday, and though Engineering was where I thought I should be I soon realized I wanted to be in Software Development. But knowing that without my Engineering background I would never have been able to take on JavaScript.
Update your LinkedIn profile with the following: updated photo/headshot, headline, summary statement using your story, and Turing added to your experience and education sections. Include a link to your profile here in the journal. Remember the guidelines and tips from the lesson here.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryce-jarrett
I need to work better on my story and not focus too much on Covid as that is something that everyone will have in common but instead focus on how I made something out of myself while the world was ending.