Attended a Hack Your Life Meetup about geting your first dev position
Submitted apps for several positions at Tyler Tech
Almost done with app for DISD Compass teaching (brief essays)
have 8:45 am appointment network of community ministries 972-234-8880, 8:45 wed 741 s sherman st, richardson tx jamey

Homework terms:
react or Angular
node.js + npm
jquery + javascript
Intellij or Webstorm
Atom or Sublime or Bracket
Bootstrap
Array.map
ES6 Classes
slack.liveplant.io
github.com/austinpray
Version Control with Git, 2nd Edition
CodeAcademy.com
FreeCodeCamp.com

Nov 13 Friday - My lucky day brings me the first full-time regular employment paycheck in forever, thanks to a call center and a pharmaceutical recall. I'm a real grown-up working at a real job again, and it looks like it will even pay most of the bills.

Oct 29 Thu - SMU also responds for a Linux admin position ( Read more... )

Oct 19 Mon - new glasses are in effect ( Read more... )

Oct 15 Thu - Transmitted my application to the academy this year (Notre Dame).

Oct 5 Mon - had a callback on work helping to repair oxygen concentrators, but it turns out that really clear hearing is necessary to diagnose and verify proper operation in a shop with multiple units operating. Went to a presentation for http://www.swri.org/ that was under attended and they took ( Read more... )

Sept 29 Tue - discovered 2nd cohort of Convergys' IE Engineers are in March. BUT, other sorts of support engineer positions are hiring in between, so I have put in my hat there ( Read more... )

Sep 23 Wed - Verification did not go so well. I answered a couple of about 5 scenarios adequately, but the evaluators seemed to be interested in more specific methods than I could muster on the rest. I had gotten the word about that the night before, but the battling medications and infections in my leg just did not allow for much quality study ( Read more... )

Sept 09 Wed - in-person verification interview with Insight Global down town, Francesca from IG Orlando calls me on my way back to set up for a phone screen for a much better position, Monday
Sept 11 Fri - interviewed for a PACE position at RISD, they my call me near winterbreak; Monday phone screen moves up to Saturday!Sept 12 Sat - I am ( Read more... )