- I would like to meet Austin Wood from the mentor list. Austin currently lives in San Francisco, which is a location I would potentially like to live and work having lived in the area in recent years. Austin is also a turing Alumni who went from the backend program to being a full-stack engineer focusing almost all on front-end Javascript in recent years.
- I have recently reached out to Austin in recent weeks and have been meeting with him via video chat. I plan to meet Austin in person over the christmas break for coffee while I am visiting family and friends in the Bay area.
- Once we have met, I plan to continue meeting with Austin via video chat on a weekly basis. I plan to continue to foster this mentorship and ask questions regarding how he obtained his first gig as I go through the program. I hope these meetings will help guide me in the direction of what my first job will look like.
Paul, this is a solid start. Think about how you can take this same plan and continue this pattern with other people. Austin might be able to give you some additional people who would be great to talk with, esp in SF. If that is where you want to be, starting to build your network now is extremely important!