This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Chris Jarvis
Welcome to December, the last month of the year. Time to wrap things up for the year.
Slightly odd week here. School was just closed a week for Thanksgiving. They are open today then closed tomorrow then three more days of school. There’s a special election Tuesday for part of the county and the schools are polling places.
What are your goals for the week?
- What are you building this week?
- What do you want to learn?
- Are you attending any events this week?
- Are you doing any of the advent coding challenges? (link below)
This Week’s Goals.
- Continue Job Search.
- Not expecting much this month. But I’ll network and work on updating resume and profiles on job sites.
- Network.
- Redo resume.
- Project work.
- Content for side project.
- Work on my own project.
- Set Content & Project Calendar for December.
- Blog
- I want to blog more often and produce more than I did this time last year.
- Events.
- Thursday Virtual Coffee.
- Attend Some Torc streams.
- Don’t know of many local events this week. Since it’s the holidays, some meetups combine for a big group holiday party later in the month.
- Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.
How I did last week.
Continue Job Search.
- Not expecting much this month. * I did talk with a recruiter on Wednesday. They are interviewing this month but not starting anyone till January.
- Network.
- Redo resume
- Project work.
Content for side project.- Work on my own project.
- Follow Content & Project Calendar for November.
- Test streaming with new modem. * Did some Zoom meetings. Attending some live streams.
- Blog
- I want to blog more often and produce more than I did this time last year. Last year Nov word was count 5,568. So far this year, including this post 2,242.(this was last Monday) A bit behind but I’m working on two more posts for the week.
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2,242/5,568 sitting at 5,730 right now. So I beat same month’s total from last year. With 12 hours to go. - Finalizing a post on getting some tech upgraded at the house. * posted Link * It is posted below
- Search for Black Friday developer related deals. I’ll post them Wednesday and update as more are announced. posted below plus a list of developer related advent calendar challenges.
- Events.
- It’s a holiday week, not sure if there are any events.
- Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.
Blogs from Last week
Setting up higher speed internet in my office.
Your turn, what do you plan to do this week?
- What are you building this week?
- What do you want to learn?
- Are you attending any events this week?
- Are you doing any of the advent coding challenges?
Cover image is my LEGO photography. Stitch with fours arms. He’s holding a laptop, phone, cookie, and a mug. He’s next to a desk with a CRT monitor and keyboard.
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This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Chris Jarvis