Last weekend was fun. After my last entry I went to my alma mater and hung out with some old friends and affiliates. We were out late and I slept in somebody's couch. The next day I met up with VT and a friend from high school and we spent the day in SF. I enjoy my trips to the city by the bay and this one being VT's first time there made it special. It would be too much to go into detail of what happened there but I will sum it up by saying that we checked out some places, rode Lyft a few times, and did a lot of walking in between. Normally I don't like taking cabs since they are expensive and make me feel awkward but the service Lyft provides is affordable, adventurous, and makes me happy. I was also happy to see the two guys getting along very well.
Saturday did take a toll on me and I spent Sunday at home sleeping and catching up on my favorite tv shows on Netflix. The third season of Arrow is now streaming and I started watching Cheers. I thought I'd spend a couple of hours at least reviewing for the Black Belt retake but at this point of the course, with being so close to the end and having studied all those frameworks, I recognize the pattern and am not concerned any longer. Rails doesn't even fascinate me any longer. After the bootcamp is complete I want to focus my studies and projects on MEAN projects.
Today we began Ember, a javascript-based web application framework like the other three we had covered. Truth be told most of us have stopped caring. We signed up for three stacks, which were already a burden to learn, and now the dojo wants to squeeze in one last stack in one week before we have our Rails projects.
I spent the good chunk of the day prepping and taking the Black Belt test. After lunch VT and I moved to the library in Mountain View cause the internet and noise level at the dojo is terrible. AS joined us later for a couple of hours before heading home up north. For the test I probably failed but turned in what I could. I'm not concerned and I'll retake it again later this week. Have I stopped caring like the rest of the class?
I know VT does nothing but complain these days about how terrible the services had been. He thought learning three stacks was the key to landing a web development job but street talk is that to be a jack-of-all-trade meant being a master of none and companies are looking for masters to fill their entry positions. He's feeling uncertain about his future, as well as at least one other classmate, and it's spreading to me. Up until now I tried not to complain about the services Coding Dojo provided, considering the rut I had been earlier this year with being unable to learn anything on my own. VT's words hit me everyday and I think now it is starting to pierce me. That feeling hit me hard today when I called a recruiter to follow up on a resume I submitted two weeks ago. She picked up the phone but told me that she'll call me back in ten minutes and never did. She either forgot or decided my resume wasn't impressive enough. There are moments when I think to myself that I should have tried a different course of action earlier this year. After that moment I slap myself in the head and remind myself that nothing good ever comes from looking back and wondering how things could have been different. What's done is done and I need to make plans for the future. Regardless of how things have turned up I am walking away with a lot of good things and I need to use that to fight for my future.
MA showed us a link to download Popcorn-Time, an app for streaming free movies and tv-shows. I ended my day watching the first episode of Mr. Robot, a show much talked about in the dojo. VT said that he has work to do but he's just watching shows like me. He's asleep on his chair again and when he wakes up he'll either watch more shows or go home. As for me I'm heading out and thinking about calling the recruiter again tomorrow.
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