thinking of using my GI bill for Chicago booth. how is there weekend plan Ill have to live in Wi with my family to take advantage. is it worth it? I am in software I would not mind moving from engineer to management or business consulting. as I have found I really love the business side of things
super pumped!!!
so, the market was pretty tough I would like some guidance, I will be the only dev at a very small company(50 people). so it looks like ill be basically building out there entire infastructure. for data. luckily i have around 3 years of data engineering and fullstack co-ops. so I feel up to the task this is the most ownership i have had so far.
is there any reading material you would recommend to me?
my BIG concern is that my manager is an IT manager but not a dev, so I have oversight but in terms of development. I don't have a ton of direct leadership.
how do I make sure I don't get bad habits?
I am a new grad; and for the longest time I was terrified I would not get a job and scared for the future of my family.
in 1 month! I have 5 interviews. heavily targeted applications it is possible guys if I can do it, you can! I was homeless 7-8 years ago!
here is my resume stripped of identifiers, I have really back panic and anxiety. I am not going to convert to my current employer i was told it is because headcount is too thin and they need to be picky and find a senior person and don't have the available budget for a junior person. however, I am getting strong letters of recommendation from the leaders on my team as well.
this is all leading me to alot of anxiety because i follow the doom posts probably more then i should and being a veteran i have already had a hard enough time adjusting to civilian life. me and my wife are having fertility issues and the health care at my current company would have covered IVF and now i am afraid we will have to sell our house i worked so hard to get and lived in my car for just to have aa kid.
I have worked so tirelessly for this experience it is so demotivating to not convert. i need to find a reason to hold my head high and it is so hard right now.
not sure if I will convert but I want to start prepping for the slog of indeed and linked in jobs.
here is a suuuuper quick summarization of my experience, i graduated 6 months ago with a bachalors in CS with a minor in statistics from a state school. currently enrolled in my masters in ML now from a very well known local private school
experiance is
1 year of research
1 year at a small tech company as a data engineer
1 year at a f500 as a data engineer with internal ownership and an entire internal application i built that saved the company good money
3 months at the same f500 as a AI engineer doing a bunch of cool research stuff that may continue.
projects
BG3 mod
brain controlled drone using ML
Herman Ebbinghaus memory software
at this point i think i am good enough to start applying for junior and dare i even say mid level roles. it is scary but i feel ready.
what should i prep on for interview practice? all the companys i work at use ai so much i dont know how useful leetcode would be is that still a thing? i did not have to do that for any of my interviews. i really dont want to Id rather build another cool project then feel like i am wasting my time. but i will if that is what is required...
do you think i have enough experiance at this point or should i try to hang on to this AI engineer experiance as long as i can? i think they may exent me part time though the year. having talks soon about that or either conversion(best choice)
i have worked my ass off for this experiance and had alot of stress i am ex military and while juggling trying tp get all of this working for free for 2 years to get this experiance before my first paid work at the f500 ive faught through consistant ptsd battles and a ton of other scars and hardship. i am getting so tired of fighting to just get that full time offer. i feel like my current place is dangling a carrot.
i was up for conversion 3 months ago it has to go through manageere, director, vp, svp and then CIO and it got approved all the way up to the CIO and he shot it down because foreign work is cheaper and i was forced to train a columbian engineer(good person) on the system I built so he could take over.
sorry for the ve4nt im just tired of grinding.
i also think my wife is pregnant! so excited but also maybe alittle stress for stability