I will be landing in Georgia on the first week of May, so all of this begins the next week: Monday, May 8th - Tuesday, May 9th - 11AM meeting with New Fire Media (freelance now, possible jr. dev later) Wednesday, May 10th - Thursday, May 11th - Friday, May 12th - Saturday, May 13th - Sunday, May 14th - OFF
- stay sharp - 1 hour coding
- personal branding - 1 hour personal site
- research one person to cold outreach
- 4 hours for SOFware UX/UI project
- bonus 1 hour of coding
- cold outreach 2 people
- 2 meaningful job applications
- Codecademy Learn SQL 3 hours
- Codecademy SQL: Table Transformation 5 hours
- Codecademy Analyzing Business Metrics 2 hours
- Codecademy ReactJS Part I 6 hours
- Codecademy ReactJS Part II 5 hours
- 100 Days CSS Challenge 100 days
- Javascript 30 Challenge 30 days
- Project Euler first 100 problems
- Exercism.io Ruby and JavaScript
- Rebuild my personal site in React. Although I like my existing site, so I think I might just get a second site for coding and datavisualization.
- Bastille Security for the internet of radios. This place just sounds cool, and they are located in Atlanta, so I'd love to talk with them.
- Email Ed Bell. Let him know what you are up to, and what you want to work on.
- Email Julie Steinhilber (Main Street Design) and ask her about interactive work.
- PyAugusta Meetup
- Coworking Wednesdays at the Clubhou.se
- Join the climbing gym
- run 3x per week (join a running club?)
5 years from now I will be coding full-time, working in a completely different stack, working on data visualization projects, and mentoring other devs. I will prioritize a short commute, social work environment, and ample vacation allowance. To get there I have to keep learning and adding new skills
In my first year on the job, I will need to make sure I am staying engaged with personal projects that stretch my ability and force me to learn more. I also need to continue to make connnections in the community. It is important that I have access to a mentor at first, then I would like to transition to a team. I don't see myself in a managerial postition and I would like to continue to work in a technical role.
I want to create Bird Hash, which is like RoboHash, but for birds. This will be a great way to combine my illustration skills and coding skills, plus I could probably get a bunch of Turing students to be beta testers.
- PyAugusta Seems like the biggest coding Meetup in the Augusta area. Plus I bet a lot of people are in cyber security, which would be interesting.
- Hack Augusta the related parent group that is also based in the coworking space.
- I am in contact with the lead instructor there, and I volunteered my services doing something. Right now I think that will be portfolio review. I could help with HTML/CSS/JS stuff, but I'm not sure what they need right now.
- I would love to continue to write about datavisualization/D3/Processing, and how to design to show off your coding skills (rather than your design skills).