- Email 2-3 new people in the industry each week to meet for coffee
- hopefully have 2ish coffee meetings per week
- Identify 1-2 jobs I’m interested in per week and apply
- Attend at least 2 meetups
- practice interview questions
- write 2 blog posts about projects/learning new technology
- give in and be active on twitter
- build out further functionality on personal project
- code wars/exercisims/turing challenges for at least 60 minutes a day
- go through Udemy iOS/swift course (already paid for)
_ iOS course (10 hours)
_ code wars/exercisms (1 hour a day- 5 hours total)
_ research and apply to jobs (5 hours)
_ email and attend coffees (5 hours)
_ work on personal project (10 hours)
_ interview practice (5 hours)
_ iOS course (10 hours)
_ code wars/exercisms (5 hours total)
_ research and apply to jobs (5 hours)
_ email and attend coffees (5 hours)
_ interview practice (5 hours)
_ work on personal project (7 hours)
_ write blog post (3 hours)
_ iOS course (10 hours)
_ code wars/exercisms (1 hour a day- 5 hours total)
_ research and apply to jobs (5 hours)
_ email and attend coffees (5 hours)
_ work on personal project (10 hours)
_ interview practice (5 hours)
_ iOS course (10 hours)
_ code wars/exercisms (5 hours total)
_ research and apply to jobs (5 hours)
_ email and attend coffees (5 hours)
_ interview practice (5 hours)
_ work on personal project (7 hours)
_ write blog post (3 hours)
- write 3 blog posts about new technology/project currently working on
- continue practicing interview questions
- attend 2 additional meetups
- email at least 1 new person for coffee each week
- apply to 1 job each week
- use an open data source to build new project using Rails backend and JS (react/or other framework) frontend
- continue practicing code challenges via code wars/turing challenges repo/exercisms
- do Mod 1 flashcards and night writer in javascript
Where do you want to go in your career?
Imagine that it's 5 years from now - what have you accomplished during that time? How is your life different? What steps did you take to achieve your goals?
- taken on increased responsbility at work
- learned new technologies
- be financially stable
Create a vision statement for these longterm goals.
- I will be a mid-level software developer at a medium sized company that values its employees and works on technology that impacts people's lives.
- I will have paid off most of my student loans.
Option #2: Open Source Project
- continue to be involved with Women Rising and Flock's equality hackers meeetup group and contribute to their open source projects.