Shortform #21 Functional strength training and job hunting, oh my.
I had a most excellent day :)
I created accounts on job posting sites and started hunting.
Joined a discord video call with two friends and we did 30 minutes of functional strength training together, I am now really sore, but am happy I worked out!
I did virtual co-working for ~3 hours.
My resume is out of date and pretty bad, I’ll fix it up tomorrow using RMarkdown and other nice R things so that my newly created resume will be up to date AND pretty / well styled. I’m meeting (virtually) with a friend on Saturday who runs career building and resume workshops and they have graciously agreed to review and give me feedback on the newly created resume. Thank you to them!
Once I have a new and up to date resume, I can add that to all the job sites I signed up at and finish making + polishing my profile on all of them.
I currently run my website on an AWS Lightsail instance with Wordpress as the CMS. I don’t think that’s working for me, and the website isn’t paying rent design-wise, content-wise, nor financially (though it is really really really cheap to operate, so I’m not losing much). So, in addition to LW2019Review writing, I’m going to make time (that doesn’t subtract from job hunting time) to redo my website and axe Wordpress as my CMS since I don’t like it. Using a static-site generator and adding a little bit of custom stuff (I really like the functionality and design of Gwern’s website so I will steal inspiration from there) will probably result in a much nicer looking, easier to manage, and more functional (for what I care about) site, so I’ll do those things.
A weird side effect of job hunting today has been a really strong desire to code. Guess I’ll be doing much more of that going forward.
Shortform #21 Functional strength training and job hunting, oh my.
I had a most excellent day :)
I created accounts on job posting sites and started hunting.
Joined a discord video call with two friends and we did 30 minutes of functional strength training together, I am now really sore, but am happy I worked out!
I did virtual co-working for ~3 hours.
My resume is out of date and pretty bad, I’ll fix it up tomorrow using RMarkdown and other nice R things so that my newly created resume will be up to date AND pretty / well styled. I’m meeting (virtually) with a friend on Saturday who runs career building and resume workshops and they have graciously agreed to review and give me feedback on the newly created resume. Thank you to them!
Once I have a new and up to date resume, I can add that to all the job sites I signed up at and finish making + polishing my profile on all of them.
I currently run my website on an AWS Lightsail instance with Wordpress as the CMS. I don’t think that’s working for me, and the website isn’t paying rent design-wise, content-wise, nor financially (though it is really really really cheap to operate, so I’m not losing much). So, in addition to LW2019Review writing, I’m going to make time (that doesn’t subtract from job hunting time) to redo my website and axe Wordpress as my CMS since I don’t like it. Using a static-site generator and adding a little bit of custom stuff (I really like the functionality and design of Gwern’s website so I will steal inspiration from there) will probably result in a much nicer looking, easier to manage, and more functional (for what I care about) site, so I’ll do those things.
A weird side effect of job hunting today has been a really strong desire to code. Guess I’ll be doing much more of that going forward.
Be well!
Cheers,
Willa