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#1: Job Search Plan: Create a schedule & goals

  1. Design a 40-hour "work week" that provides time for:

4 hours of coding each day: 1 hour codewars, 1 hour fundamentals/OOP/algorithm, 2 hours on side project or open source contribution 4 hours of cold outreach and applying to jobs: Every application I do, make an effort to find someone at the company to reach out to and do

  1. Backwards planning: What is your cut-off for ending the job search? When do you want to receive and sign an offer by?

May 15th.

  1. Based on what you outlined above, create monthly, weekly, and daily goals in order to reach your big goal.

Monthly: 10 Cold out reach dates, two projects in production, 16 codewars done, 4 exercisms done, one new technology learned

Weekly: One new side project mvp up and running, four codewars done, one exercism done

Daily: One codewar finished, a couple hours sunk into a project, a couple hours sunk into tutorials for something I want to learn(Java, Angular, Ruby), Keep in mind:

  • What skills would you like to improve or develop?
  • What is feasible in your schedule?
  • What actions will give you the most impact in your search?

  1. Block out time on your calendar now to adhere to these goals. At the end of each week, assess what worked with the schedule and what didn't so that you can make adjustments as needed and manage your time even more effectively for the following week.

  2. What "barriers" tend to hold you back in the job search? What steps will you take to overcome those "barriers"?

I think I mostly get held back by discouragement. The only way to overcome this is to keep physically working out, and just keep grinding away knowing that something will happen.

Example of clearly outlined goals and schedule to complete them.

#2: Longterm Career Plan: What are your career goals?

Where do you want to go in your career?

Reflect on this narrative rule described by Emma Coats, former Pixar story artist:

I want to be CTO of a high functioning startup or company someday.
  1. Imagine that it's 5 years from now - what have you accomplished during that time? How is your life different? What steps did you take to achieve your goals?

I've had one or two jobs that have helped me really become a full stack developer and I can do anything I want in the programming world based on my knowledge alone.

  1. Create a vision statement for these longterm goals.

I will become a full stack developer that is recruited constantly by cool companies in cool places for awesome cutting edge projects with people that are commited 150%.

  1. Reference what you outlined in your Flower Exercise -- what preferred level of responsibility do you want to move to? Do you want to start your own company? What kind of work do you see yourself doing longterm? In your first year on the job, what skills do you want to develop to work towards your longterm goals?

Someday I'd like to be in charge of something, whether it's my own product, team or company, I just know I'd like to move into a leadership role.

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