Life Update

in #life6 years ago

I've been absent for a while due to some life changes.

Last month I was fired. Apparently, there were cutbacks at my old job and it was decided that I was superfluous. They were as nice about it as could be expected and I did get another full month of salary without having to actually come to work.

yesterday was my last official day at my old job.

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luckily, I've been taking a course for Full Stack programming to enhance my skills so I beefed up my CV and started looking. I have an offer that is a bit big in terms of the job description. I'll be in charge of several things I have never been in charge of before. It'll mean I'll be working from home as a freelancer but the money isn't bad so I'll probably take it. It'll help me avoid getting unemployment checks - at 75% of the average paycheck, it isn't enough for our monthly expenses.

So far I've been putting most of my energy into trying to finish my App's POC for the presentation early next month (April 7th). I've been writing it in React using Node JS and Mongo DB to create a progressive web app. The course involves creating two apps - one for ourselves and one for an entrepreneur that we'll be meeting at the presentations. It's like an audition of sorts to show what we can do.

My POC is mostly done apart from push notifications and advanced authentication that we'll be studying later. in the meantime, we've started covering Angular since that is the framework we'll be using for our second App.

Other than that I've been helping my prospective employer with some logo design, one-pagers, websites etc' with the promise I'll be compensated for my work next month. Since I know her I have chosen to trust her even though we still haven't signed a contract.

I have been working more this past month than in my usual full-time job previously :)

I'll leave you with the login screen to the App I'm building that I hope will become commercially viable someday:

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I hope everything will work out and that I'll have the time and motivation to post more on steem.

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Good to see ya around :) Glad you found something new and hope your app is up and running soon!

Thanks :) having a POC is different than a fully functional app but I'm working on it.

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