6 Figures 6 Certs Random Thoughts Thread
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Job update
Just got my performance review.... 3.4 out of 5.
I still received my full bonus fwiw, but on the flip side, being seen a C+ worker bruised my ego and is an unavoidable reminder that I am half-assing things daily. I think years with the company (or maybe just a 9-5 in general?) has me doing the bare minimum to avoid complaints at the end of the day.
My personal goal has been to quit and try trading for a living. I've got enough money to give that a real try for a year, & so the job feels like a means to end. Any attempts at improving processes seem pointless to me because I am not invested in the future of the company and I think it shows.
I contemplated quitting in a month when we are forced to go hybrid-WFH, but I think I'm going to stick it out longer for a few reasons:
I still received my full bonus fwiw, but on the flip side, being seen a C+ worker bruised my ego and is an unavoidable reminder that I am half-assing things daily. I think years with the company (or maybe just a 9-5 in general?) has me doing the bare minimum to avoid complaints at the end of the day.
My personal goal has been to quit and try trading for a living. I've got enough money to give that a real try for a year, & so the job feels like a means to end. Any attempts at improving processes seem pointless to me because I am not invested in the future of the company and I think it shows.
I contemplated quitting in a month when we are forced to go hybrid-WFH, but I think I'm going to stick it out longer for a few reasons:
- I need a backup plan if trading doesn't work. Right now, I'm seen as a C+ worker which won't cut it. Why don't I improve my skills while I'm getting paid to do it?
- If Covid flares up again in the winter, they might temporarily abandon hybrid WFH again & I want to be working there if that happens again.
- Extra guaranteed money & one last bonus check @ the end of the year never hurt nobody
- Create a hard deadline for when I want to quit.
- Is it after investing a certain amount of $$$ or hitting a new net worth?
- Is it after getting certs or successfully owning new processes internally
- Reverse engineer my timeline so that I know how much effort I need to put in from now until then
- Research what skills/processes/certs are ideal for my skillset and how I can achieve that in my current position
- Create a schedule that plots out weekly targets to hit
- Execute my plan
I’m 40 days into this project manager position. My third week they had me running the weekly critical call and taking notes for JIRA tickets that I then have to assign to developers, engineers, etc to complete.
Also every day, I’m responding to and coordinating urgent IT tickets that have to be taken care of ASAP
that’s half of my job, the other is managing three other projects that are in different stages. My outlook/teams calendar is almost completely booked everyday.
I’m just leaving a lifetime a govt work, so I’m a little green to the private sector. Is this normal?
Also every day, I’m responding to and coordinating urgent IT tickets that have to be taken care of ASAP
that’s half of my job, the other is managing three other projects that are in different stages. My outlook/teams calendar is almost completely booked everyday.
I’m just leaving a lifetime a govt work, so I’m a little green to the private sector. Is this normal?
I’m just leaving a lifetime a govt work, so I’m a little green to the private sector. Is this normal?
Yea, coming in as an experienced PM means you have less leeway when it comes to hitting the ground running. But 40 days in and to be this intense sounds odd...usually you’re just setting up your various accesses in the first 3-4 weeks.
Hoshi_Toshi
Superstar
Didn't get it. I went thru hell with these dumb ass interviews. Since I made this post back in April I had 3 more companies go to final round interviews.2 rejections this week, 1 interview next week
I’m getting closer
Finally got one. It's bittersweet. Signed my offer letter today. Right under 100K. Finally did this shyt man. Got off T2 help desk.
What kinda role is it?
Hoshi_Toshi
Superstar
Infrastructure engineer.
About to dive deep into SCCM and JAMF.
Flubbed and online assessment. Given a sequence of numbers, identify if it's a complete sequence, that's the gist of it. The sequence would be from 1 to max(sequence). On failure output how many you got vs how many was expected. I was good at detecting the sequence, sort and compare index vs value. Didn't know about the duplicates until I started submitting against test cases 
. Ran out of time commenting why I wasn't handling them properly while trying to work on it. Submitted at 1 second and it gave me an error 
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. Ran out of time commenting why I wasn't handling them properly while trying to work on it. Submitted at 1 second and it gave me an error .how many hours a day are you grinding lc?Flubbed and online assessment. Given a sequence of numbers, identify if it's a complete sequence, that's the gist of it. The sequence would be from 1 to max(sequence). On failure output how many you got vs how many was expected. I was good at detecting the sequence, sort and compare index vs value. Didn't know about the duplicates until I started submitting against test cases
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Maaaan, COL out here is through the roof. Hopefully this pivot will be worth it based on my proximity to the decision makers in my industry.
First day in the office (company isn't fully back yet, I just came so I could actually see the set-up).
I’ve gone through like 3 floors just taking a look at team pics etc.
It’s like 4 brehs out of 120 people I’ve seen already (not including me).
This about to be an interesting time in this role.
I’ve gone through like 3 floors just taking a look at team pics etc.
It’s like 4 brehs out of 120 people I’ve seen already (not including me).
This about to be an interesting time in this role.
zerorequiem
All Star
Damn brehs, I think our govt. contract will be up in a couple of weeks. smh Keeping my fingers crossed our shyt gets renewed again. I'm definitely nervous about getting back in the job market.