u/auditGuy2500

I finished my IT program before the business part of my degree. And came up with some immediate and less immediate goals I want to achieve before applying for SWE jobs more frequently, currently I mainly apply for help desk jobs and grad roles. I'm interested in either full stack engineering back end or low level performant code. I'm really curious about what I should prioritise and what I can put off.

Achieved

- Explore front end with my first 2 ever projects: JS, HTML/CSS, Node, React, Motion, Vite, Git and Bash.

-Learn DSA from beginner leetcode to 2D Dynamic Programming and Greedy Algorithms as well as more advanced graph theory. I did well in this class with marks in the 90s and have comprehensive notes.

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These goals I would say the top 3 and 4 would make me really confident and totally achievable. The latter are aspirational for now.

Goals (higher is sooner)

-Master SQL with a real life postgressSQL of an organisation I know and understand.

-Use that postgress SQL in a POS system project.

-Finish all or most of Neetcode150 with selective nows for each main category.

-Comperehensive notes and cheat sheet for C++ and Python interviews. Perhaps post videos for networking.

-Implement CI/CD in existing projects and in future. Report on usage.

-Explore distributed systems by creating an API and using it on my own service.

-Explore concurrency and multi threading with a pet project.

-Complete books I have on operating systems, networking, hardware, concurrency. Produce notes and anki flashclards along the way.

Hey I was wondering what it's like to work in this industry when you're older, specially when looking for a job. I'm the type who is interested in working until very old. like 70s, I would get very bored otherwise. It's something I quite value.

I'm really considering work in IT/SWE my education leans towards a more tech focused career (even if it wasn't my intention) and a vast majority of my network is in tech. Also not my intention, just my personality took me that direction.

Originally my aspirations were accounting because i thought it was a safe, reliable, common sense option. It's proven not to be the case. I liked the idea of being able to start my own practice in tax or maybe audit and carry out my plan of working forever. But it just doesn't seem to be logical to continue to pursue this career, of course a lot of new grad and entry level roles are struggling but in accounting I don't feel like I have any agency. I can't just hit a bunch of books and work on some projects and be considered a more competent accountant whereas in IT/SWE I can.

Forget the user name lol, I really enjoy computer hardware theory, operating systems, Linux and networking. CPP seems to be one language that embodies those kind of interests. Was wondering what kind of CPP project has gotten you excited/hyped about programming. Just looking for aspirational content.

I had a doctor's appointment actually multiple different appointments (had to walk to the next appointment plus bus home) and this guy parks this giant white work van on my driveway. Usually I don't mind just leave your number somewhere so I can call you and you move it for a minute and I can go on my merry way no questions asked. I'm that guy.

But I draw the line at me getting an uber that's uncalled for. My day was ruined and this cannot happen again.

Has anyone had any experience with private tutoring for Business Analysis?

Got a bit spooked by the string of posts about this subject lately and I'm convinced that I wouldn't be very good at it either so I'm thinking it might be worth it to work with a tutor early and get to exam prep, I can only find tutors on this site "studentvip" but it seems like the tutors there graduated a long time ago and they don't really specialise on this subject. I'm not aware of other sites yet.

Additionally I wanted to ask if anyone did well on the BA final this recent semester and what your thoughts were particularly on the final exam and overall how to handle the subject convincingly.

What I hope to do is finish the group and solo projects asap and work on the final exam early throughout the sem but I can't really find much about the actual final questions online, sometimes I've even found the practice paper for other subjects on google but for this subject there isn't much that I can find.

It was a favourite in our family for almost a year and then when we ran out it vanished. We thought it would come.back eventually but it never did.

Does anyone know what happened? I thought cocopops ran into a home run with this one.