Wow, I've been away for a long time that I forgot for a while about this blog. My bad. Anyway, since my last entry I've been applying to dev jobs while working temp jobs to support myself. It was a roller coaster ride and I admit that some weeks I didn't follow up with anything and just distracted myself with the current work and my social life. Job hunting does get demoralizing and sometimes I didn't want to think about it.
Then came July when I caught my first break. Back in June one of the dojo's career counselors posted a job opening for a remote web developer position. I applied and a couple of weeks later I was speaking with the manager. We exchanged a few emails and a month later he offered me the position. It's part time, and remote, but it was my first break.
The main language and framework being used for this position is Ruby and Ruby on Rails. This was one of my strongest fields and so getting started was really easy. Most of my tasks involve front-end development and the implementation of API's for converting databases into PDF's. When the manager first gave me these conditions I panicked for a moment before tackling and I found that I quickly adapted to learning new materials. I guess that's one of the benefits of learning three stacks.
So that's my current dev job. Since it's part time I take other temp jobs to fill up my schedule and increase my income. Most of my temp jobs involve data entry and they do get really boring, even when the pay goes above what I usually get. I get excited when the job is over so I can head over to a Starbucks and spend a few hours writing code while drinking an Americano (traffic gets really heavy and I can't concentrate at home). It's not ideal; I'd much rather be in an office setting and coding full time but my dad often reminds me that I'm still starting off and I have my entire life to progress to my dream job. I try to keep that in mind when the days end.
So yeah, that's my first dev job. I said that I'd keep writing entries until that finally happens but when I wrote that I was thinking that it would be full time. So it feels like this blog is not yet complete. Maybe I should't conclude it just yet until the next opportunity comes up. I'll keep you posted.
