Day 46: Career Counseling and Angular

The dojo's career counselor came over from Seattle yesterday to talk about job searching. I didn't participate yesterday but I figure that I should show up today cause I'm more than halfway through the bootcamp and job hunting will be coming around real soon. Back in college I attended a good number of career counseling sessions that laid out the same strategies that she laid down today. I already know that networking is important, as well as keeping an up-to-date LinkedIn account and a clean resume that can be modified to fit different job descriptions. I tried to fight the boredom and felt like I was letting myself down by spending most of the day in this lecture instead of doing some actual assignments. The real interesting stuff came up in the last part of her session when she advised us to sign up on job posting websites as soon as we can because recruiters often look through them to find and screen candidates for potential positions. It would be ideal to have a job set up immediately after I graduate and so I need to set aside a day to pick out a couple of sites and set things up there.

By late afternoon I was free to begin the Angular material. The material looks easy and I would have finished the final assignment real quick if it wasn't for some tiny error that I can't locate. Most of the people are gone for the evening and I am getting sleepy. VT was around and I tried to ask him for help. He was willing to help me out but he insisted that I was doing everything wrong and then changed several lines of code that were needed to perform another task. I tried to tell him that but he wasn't listening. His changes didn't fix anything either and I told him that it was fine and I would just ask somebody else in the morning but he kept going at it for a while longer before he capitulated. I normally don't mind his antics but his persistence in the face of a problem neither of us could solve was just absurd. I was getting tired and I didn't care about completing the assignment any longer for the night.