Daily Serving

Ah, failure. I’m coming to terms with it. I think as a kid, I was one of those people who just caught on to things rather quickly. I didn’t fail enough. Or if I did fail, it was by laziness on my part. Now however, I’m really trying. really. and dammit, this is teaching me how to fail and fail gracefully. As I’m going through this endeavor of learning javascript. Really learning it as Mr. Unused Genius would say not just finding snippets and making them work for me. I’m also looking for a job. I may have a chance to return to my previous job remotely, but that’s up in the air. I made some effort to speak to recruiters which I’ve never really done before. You see, I’ve never had a problem finding a job. Until now. ok, granted I’ve only been looking for a month. I’m a type ‘A’ personality, welcome to my support group. Having this work ethic and trying to change what I do while trying to convince someone I can do the job is a little challenging. I’m used to talking about my portfolio and ow to deal with clients (which I still do), but now I’m having to know far more jargon and buzzwords about coding than ever. Something which I do better by demonstrating rather than speaking about it. Phone interviews…I’m just not that great. I need to learn this skill as well. So here’s to hoping the former job returns as I believe I could turn it into something really great now that I’m more aware of what I should be doing to improve myself.

What’s been happening:

1. Finished Code Academy Javascript Track (they’ve added a new project track which I plan on trying out)

2. Bought this book and have gone through 6 chapters (I’m forcing myself to write the book in order to comprehend) Handwriting is improving.

3. I have access to a Lynda account and will be going through and looking at angular.js

4. I have conceived of a couple of projects to give me a better portfolio when I redo it.