6 Figures 6 Certs Random Thoughts Thread

Macallik86

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Currently below the week's Volume Weighted Average Price. Now I'm watching that 5 Day Moving Average on the SPY to see if it holds:

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This chick hit me up Tuesday, talking about she would send me an update Wednesday. I sent her a passive aggressive email like "I guess no news is bad news". These recruiters doing this, that's why I don't get chummy with them on the phone. Tell me the role, get my salary and move forward because i'll probably never hear from you again anyway.

A dude from linked in hit me up asking for my availability about another role I assumed I applied for it because he said he was responding to my application. But it's Friday so the likelihood of hearing from him today is slim to none.

If I didn't have goals or needed money, I would have given up long ago. The fact is, I'll probably be going through this again in another two years because I suck at work. fukk me. *sigh* I should avoid speaking with recruiters today, I'm feeling "snippy" and bitter. :heh:
 

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My anxiety is telling me to push my exam date back. Part of me feels ill severely regret it. I just gotta crack down and take in the material.

Jesus. What to do?
Hell I love failing certification tests because they're easier the 2nd time around. I have to stop myself from throwing away money because I'm taking them before being totally prepared. Because I know once I take it then I'll know what to expect going forward.
 

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This chick hit me up Tuesday, talking about she would send me an update Wednesday. I sent her a passive aggressive email like "I guess no news is bad news". These recruiters doing this, that's why I don't get chummy with them on the phone. Tell me the role, get my salary and move forward because i'll probably never hear from you again anyway.

A dude from linked in hit me up asking for my availability about another role I assumed I applied for it because he said he was responding to my application. But it's Friday so the likelihood of hearing from him today is slim to none.

If I didn't have goals or needed money, I would have given up long ago. The fact is, I'll probably be going through this again in another two years because I suck at work. fukk me. *sigh* I should avoid speaking with recruiters today, I'm feeling "snippy" and bitter. :heh:
That's why I don't deal with random Recruiters anymore. There are a select few I know that aren't scumbags. So I just contact them directly.

I'll only talk to some new recruiter to fish for information on a potential job. Then take that information to the Recruiters I know and see if they can place people for this job.

You might get less opportunities but you ain't having rage fits dealing with a moron who leaves you hanging.

This one recruiter I know hits me up every year or so to see if I need a job. So he's one of the first people I'll hit up if my job situation gets bad. He has some huge clients and can usually find something.

Everyone should try and stay in contact with a really good recruiter because you never know when you'll need them.

Because the idiots they hire now as recruiters are bottom of the barrel.
 

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That's why I don't deal with random Recruiters anymore. There are a select few I know that aren't scumbags. So I just contact them directly.

I'll only talk to some new recruiter to fish for information on a potential job. Then take that information to the Recruiters I know and see if they can place people for this job.

You might get less opportunities but you ain't having rage fits dealing with a moron who leaves you hanging.

This one recruiter I know hits me up every year or so to see if I need a job. So he's one of the first people I'll hit up if my job situation gets bad. He has some huge clients and can usually find something.

Everyone should try and stay in contact with a really good recruiter because you never know when you'll need them.

Because the idiots they hire now as recruiters are bottom of the barrel.

The fact these companies hiring even let multiple places recruit for them is some shyt and as a job seeker you're penalized for it. One company can list the role as a developer, the other as a analyst, you apply for both with two different companies, but you're cancelled out because you've been submitted twice. How did I even know the roles were the same?

I haven't had a good experience yet, but I also think after a while, I became shut down a having one, so I project a bad experience every time. I need to change that. But it's still frustrating. I understand not getting back to every single applicant, but if I signed an RTR, you should at least let me know if I was selected to proceed or not. I need to go slip and fall in Walmart or something. Get hit by a government vehicle or something "come up" worthy! :lupe:

She finally hit me back talking about the company decided to put a hold on hiring for the position :rolleyes: of course. I bet if I hadn't emailed, I wouldn't have heard back.
 

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Yea just take it now. There's definitely a good feeling knowing you got it out the way, even if you don't do so well. You can always take it again later.

Hell I love failing certification tests because they're easier the 2nd time around. I have to stop myself from throwing away money because I'm taking them before being totally prepared. Because I know once I take it then I'll know what to expect going forward.

When is the exam date again? I say get that shyt over with. Even if you fail, at least you know what the test consists of and know which areas you need to focus on.

It took me a while to save up to purchase it. I'm more concerned that it'll take me just as long to save up for another voucher, there's one fear. But i've been doing practice tests everyday, and every few days (i'm actually overdue) I'll do one major simulation practice test that provides me a scope of where I'm most weak at. (I got all the lesser weighted domains down :snoop:)
 

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It took me a while to save up to purchase it. I'm more concerned that it'll take me just as long to save up for another voucher, there's one fear. But i've been doing practice tests everyday, and every few days (i'm actually overdue) I'll do one major simulation practice test that provides me a scope of where I'm most weak at. (I got all the lesser weighted domains down :snoop:)
How much is it?
 

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$349 USD. But being from a country with a shytty dollar that keeps getting shyttier it'll run me about $500 damn near.

Damn, that is a lot. If I were working, I’d pay it for you or at least keep it on the side Incase you need to retake.

If you’re seriously, not ready dont, but keep studying. If my financial situation changes soon, I’ll let you know. I would definitely finance your retake, if necessary. We all we got!
 

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Damn, that is a lot. If I were working, I’d pay it for you or at least keep it on the side Incase you need to retake.

If you’re seriously, not ready dont, but keep studying. If my financial situation changes soon, I’ll let you know. I would definitely finance your retake, if necessary. We all we got!
i appreciate your kindness. God bless you. I'm still going to use Sunday to gage my preparedness, and right now I'm just considering pushing it back a week. So far I'm doing okay with reviewing two major domains.

Another advantage is i'm about to pay off a major debt, so that would give me a little more wiggle room financially. And of course I'd have to pick up a shift with instacart. There's definitely a way, I just don't want it to be a huge gap of time between tests.
 

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Sometimes you have to not show people how capable you are, lest you risk becoming the MF that has to do absolutely everything. I identified a probable fix my vendor needs to make, low priority in the grand scheme. They're taking a while, probably with good reason, because there are higher priority things that need to be handled, and now internally people want me to make that fix. So now I'm "seeing what I can do :unimpressed:", which of course is going to get the job done because I'm fukking good at what I do. If you're going to have me do development on this product, fukk all that bullshyt with the vendor, and pay me what you're paying them. I'm 70% of the way to the fix already. I'm tempted to get it working then come back like :yeshrug: sorry I couldn't do it, code too complicated, let's wait on the vendor fix. With word of massive layoffs within the next 40-50 days, should I even bother trying anymore?
 

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Airbnb’s Talent Directory

A link to a list of people let go from Airbnb it looks like. They have links to some resumes, linkedin pages, and githubs.

In case you are beefing up your resume and need inspiration of what your resume should look like.

Of course I saw like one black person between IT & Engineering. Maybe they didn't fire any black people. :mjpls:
 

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These analytic/visualization products are all the same. I prefer learning via reading than video. Not everyone's voice you want to hear for an hour plus. Give me the transcript, the use case and let me go at it. Self-paced learning takes a lot of discipline! That's one thing I like about college, the structure and timelines are provided for you, with self-paced, you have to figure out the structure AND stick to it.
 

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Sometimes you have to not show people how capable you are, lest you risk becoming the MF that has to do absolutely everything. I identified a probable fix my vendor needs to make, low priority in the grand scheme. They're taking a while, probably with good reason, because there are higher priority things that need to be handled, and now internally people want me to make that fix. So now I'm "seeing what I can do :unimpressed:", which of course is going to get the job done because I'm fukking good at what I do. If you're going to have me do development on this product, fukk all that bullshyt with the vendor, and pay me what you're paying them. I'm 70% of the way to the fix already. I'm tempted to get it working then come back like :yeshrug: sorry I couldn't do it, code too complicated, let's wait on the vendor fix. With word of massive layoffs within the next 40-50 days, should I even bother trying anymore?

Don't say anything. but keep working on it. If they lay you off, sell it to them.
 
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