Day 206 of writing every day.
It’s been over three months since I quit my last job and almost 12 weeks since my enrollment in the online programming school began. I signed up for the three-month plan with the deadline to find a job within that time frame, but it turned out that I needed more time to find a job.
I don’t think it’s that hard to get a job if I was willing to take anything that involved teaching English and being exploited unreasonably, but my goal is to find employment somewhere that I felt like I could work for an extended period of time. That was what prompted my declining of the first job offer I got right off the bat even though it was a system engineer type of job.
But with the end of the enrollment and what amounted to twelve weekly lessons, I find less motivation to use the text materials as my logic is that I won’t be able to make any significant gains in knowledge trying to forge ahead on my own in PHP and Laravel, at least in terms of helping me succeed in my job hunt.
That explains my focus on the IT Passport exam where I’m learning more about strategy and management fundamentals when it comes to defining how every company operates as profit seeking entities and the needs they have to better understand how programmers and engineers actually make a living. After all, unless you’re selling some kind of consumer app like a smartphone game marketed to regular people, you’re going to be finding customers in the form of other businesses looking to automate or optimize their business processes to reduce labor costs and improve accuracy, for example.
If I do get a job soon, I’ll have a concrete plan of what programming language I’ll need to become good at. If I’m going to get good at a language of my own choosing, it’s going to require a lot more time than three months especially if I don’t have the pressure of work pushing me essentially to swim or drown when it comes to becoming able to do the job I got hired with the expectation to be able to do.
Maybe I’ll check out CodeAcademy that’s been really pushing its ads to me. I’ll learn faster in English and I’m quite confident the content quality is ahead and US programming schools are well ahead of anything Japanese ones can offer. Everything has to be translated from English Japanese after all and that causes a lag that I don’t expect Japan to be able to catch up on. Maybe the pricing might even be cheaper too.
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