“Now get up and go into the city and you will be told what you must do.”
I’m not particularly religious, but this photo by my friend Andrea was so timely this morning it brought me nearly to tears.
I’m wavering these days, trying to figure out the best path forward. What to work on, what to study, where to spend my time and energy to appeal to potential employers. I’ve been kinda all over the place: I spent a week climbing the Code Wars code challenge rankings to #2 for my Code Fellows “clan.” I went back through the assignments for Code 301 (the class I TAed) and completed them myself, to make sure I thoroughly understand all the components of a MVC website. (301 is a new class, which is why I hadn’t completed the assignments previously.) I’ve been coding in JavaScript and Ruby. I tried Rails 5. I went (finally) to an Open Seattle meetup and met some great people with neat project ideas. I started learning vim!
What I know is this: when I try to plot my path forward from my living room, I get nowhere. So my goal for the remainder of the month is to figuratively and literally GO INTO THE CITY. Look around. Talk to people. And listen for the clues to what to do next.
February 13, 2016 at 7:24 pm
This existential crisis thing is what I am afraid of as well when I’m finished with my 401 in four weeks. Augh! I believe that you’re on the right track, tho, and well positioned to take advantage of any opportunities that happen to float by. Just keep on being visible, keep getting out there, and good things will happen.