Archives of posts from February 2016
In my recent job search I have been getting turned down by a lot of employers because I do not have React or Angular experience. Today I decided to learn one and build a demo app that can prove that I know the framework and can get work done. After research and tallying up denial emails, I decided that React was looking more needed and that it was smarter to learn React. So, I set out to do it. I read a article that explain why React was superior to React and I was hooked. Mind you I finished this at 0200, when I should of been cozyed up against my wife, dogs, and my daughter in bed. However, now I have the damn learning fever that I get when I am learning something new.
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Through my recent layoff and my currently ongoing job search, I have had to answer a lot of interview type questions. One of those questions was, “What else do you think we should know about you?”. I thought to myself, what else is pertinent here? Let’s be honest and write about my strengths and weaknesses. And then it set in… my brain came to a halt. What are my strengths? I have non, but I have a ton of weaknesses. Then steps in the wife. According to my wife my greatest strength as an engineer is my attention to detail, and my greatest weakness as a developer is my tendency to try and be a hero and take on too much work in an iteration. Let me go into some more detail.
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In my recent job search I have been getting turned down by a lot of employers because I do not have React or Angular experience. Today I decided to learn one and build a demo app that can prove that I know the framework and can get work done. After research and tallying up denial emails, I decided that React was looking more needed and that it was smarter to learn React. So, I set out to do it. I read a article that explain why React was superior to React and I was hooked. Mind you I finished this at 0200, when I should of been cozyed up against my wife, dogs, and my daughter in bed. However, now I have the damn learning fever that I get when I am learning something new.
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Through my recent layoff and my currently ongoing job search, I have had to answer a lot of interview type questions. One of those questions was, “What else do you think we should know about you?”. I thought to myself, what else is pertinent here? Let’s be honest and write about my strengths and weaknesses. And then it set in… my brain came to a halt. What are my strengths? I have non, but I have a ton of weaknesses. Then steps in the wife. According to my wife my greatest strength as an engineer is my attention to detail, and my greatest weakness as a developer is my tendency to try and be a hero and take on too much work in an iteration. Let me go into some more detail.
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In my recent job search I have been getting turned down by a lot of employers because I do not have React or Angular experience. Today I decided to learn one and build a demo app that can prove that I know the framework and can get work done. After research and tallying up denial emails, I decided that React was looking more needed and that it was smarter to learn React. So, I set out to do it. I read a article that explain why React was superior to React and I was hooked. Mind you I finished this at 0200, when I should of been cozyed up against my wife, dogs, and my daughter in bed. However, now I have the damn learning fever that I get when I am learning something new.
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Through my recent layoff and my currently ongoing job search, I have had to answer a lot of interview type questions. One of those questions was, “What else do you think we should know about you?”. I thought to myself, what else is pertinent here? Let’s be honest and write about my strengths and weaknesses. And then it set in… my brain came to a halt. What are my strengths? I have non, but I have a ton of weaknesses. Then steps in the wife. According to my wife my greatest strength as an engineer is my attention to detail, and my greatest weakness as a developer is my tendency to try and be a hero and take on too much work in an iteration. Let me go into some more detail.
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In my recent job search I have been getting turned down by a lot of employers because I do not have React or Angular experience. Today I decided to learn one and build a demo app that can prove that I know the framework and can get work done. After research and tallying up denial emails, I decided that React was looking more needed and that it was smarter to learn React. So, I set out to do it. I read a article that explain why React was superior to React and I was hooked. Mind you I finished this at 0200, when I should of been cozyed up against my wife, dogs, and my daughter in bed. However, now I have the damn learning fever that I get when I am learning something new.
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Through my recent layoff and my currently ongoing job search, I have had to answer a lot of interview type questions. One of those questions was, “What else do you think we should know about you?”. I thought to myself, what else is pertinent here? Let’s be honest and write about my strengths and weaknesses. And then it set in… my brain came to a halt. What are my strengths? I have non, but I have a ton of weaknesses. Then steps in the wife. According to my wife my greatest strength as an engineer is my attention to detail, and my greatest weakness as a developer is my tendency to try and be a hero and take on too much work in an iteration. Let me go into some more detail.
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In my recent job search I have been getting turned down by a lot of employers because I do not have React or Angular experience. Today I decided to learn one and build a demo app that can prove that I know the framework and can get work done. After research and tallying up denial emails, I decided that React was looking more needed and that it was smarter to learn React. So, I set out to do it. I read a article that explain why React was superior to React and I was hooked. Mind you I finished this at 0200, when I should of been cozyed up against my wife, dogs, and my daughter in bed. However, now I have the damn learning fever that I get when I am learning something new.
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Through my recent layoff and my currently ongoing job search, I have had to answer a lot of interview type questions. One of those questions was, “What else do you think we should know about you?”. I thought to myself, what else is pertinent here? Let’s be honest and write about my strengths and weaknesses. And then it set in… my brain came to a halt. What are my strengths? I have non, but I have a ton of weaknesses. Then steps in the wife. According to my wife my greatest strength as an engineer is my attention to detail, and my greatest weakness as a developer is my tendency to try and be a hero and take on too much work in an iteration. Let me go into some more detail.
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In my recent job search I have been getting turned down by a lot of employers because I do not have React or Angular experience. Today I decided to learn one and build a demo app that can prove that I know the framework and can get work done. After research and tallying up denial emails, I decided that React was looking more needed and that it was smarter to learn React. So, I set out to do it. I read a article that explain why React was superior to React and I was hooked. Mind you I finished this at 0200, when I should of been cozyed up against my wife, dogs, and my daughter in bed. However, now I have the damn learning fever that I get when I am learning something new.
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Through my recent layoff and my currently ongoing job search, I have had to answer a lot of interview type questions. One of those questions was, “What else do you think we should know about you?”. I thought to myself, what else is pertinent here? Let’s be honest and write about my strengths and weaknesses. And then it set in… my brain came to a halt. What are my strengths? I have non, but I have a ton of weaknesses. Then steps in the wife. According to my wife my greatest strength as an engineer is my attention to detail, and my greatest weakness as a developer is my tendency to try and be a hero and take on too much work in an iteration. Let me go into some more detail.
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In my recent job search I have been getting turned down by a lot of employers because I do not have React or Angular experience. Today I decided to learn one and build a demo app that can prove that I know the framework and can get work done. After research and tallying up denial emails, I decided that React was looking more needed and that it was smarter to learn React. So, I set out to do it. I read a article that explain why React was superior to React and I was hooked. Mind you I finished this at 0200, when I should of been cozyed up against my wife, dogs, and my daughter in bed. However, now I have the damn learning fever that I get when I am learning something new.
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Through my recent layoff and my currently ongoing job search, I have had to answer a lot of interview type questions. One of those questions was, “What else do you think we should know about you?”. I thought to myself, what else is pertinent here? Let’s be honest and write about my strengths and weaknesses. And then it set in… my brain came to a halt. What are my strengths? I have non, but I have a ton of weaknesses. Then steps in the wife. According to my wife my greatest strength as an engineer is my attention to detail, and my greatest weakness as a developer is my tendency to try and be a hero and take on too much work in an iteration. Let me go into some more detail.
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In my recent job search I have been getting turned down by a lot of employers because I do not have React or Angular experience. Today I decided to learn one and build a demo app that can prove that I know the framework and can get work done. After research and tallying up denial emails, I decided that React was looking more needed and that it was smarter to learn React. So, I set out to do it. I read a article that explain why React was superior to React and I was hooked. Mind you I finished this at 0200, when I should of been cozyed up against my wife, dogs, and my daughter in bed. However, now I have the damn learning fever that I get when I am learning something new.
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Through my recent layoff and my currently ongoing job search, I have had to answer a lot of interview type questions. One of those questions was, “What else do you think we should know about you?”. I thought to myself, what else is pertinent here? Let’s be honest and write about my strengths and weaknesses. And then it set in… my brain came to a halt. What are my strengths? I have non, but I have a ton of weaknesses. Then steps in the wife. According to my wife my greatest strength as an engineer is my attention to detail, and my greatest weakness as a developer is my tendency to try and be a hero and take on too much work in an iteration. Let me go into some more detail.
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