It has been quite some time since my last posting. The cohort is going extremely well. As of writing, I have completed the Core 1 exam for Comptia’s A+ certification. This is the first real step I’ve taken to having my skill verified. The only difficulty at this time is the global pandemic that is the corona virus. Due to it’s spread across the globe, my country has insitigated a nation wide quarantine. While this…
Continuing throgh the IT Analyst Bootcamp, we also participate in professional development. This is a godsend for my personality type and shows me just how lacking my linkedin profile truly was. Since making the adjustments from the weekly workshops we do, I have exponentially expanded my networks. Furthermore, through the group Civic Action, I now have access to Linkedin Learning. It also helps that I finally have a professional looking headshot, even though it shows…
Continuing with my weekly reflection of NPowerCanada’a IT Analyst program I find myself getting more comfortable within this setting. It’s not just technical training alone, today for example we had representatives from Civic Action come in for LinkedIN. An advantage of them coming in is that I now have access to LinkedIn Learning until October of 2020. This is good for me because I had a linkedin premium for a few months but quit becasue…
As I’m progressing well with my A+ certification course, I believe now is a good get back into coding again. By learning the blockchain development, it’ll reinforce what I’ve learned as I follow along and summarize what I do with each section completed. By learning to build a block chain in 2020, I’ll position myself better when applying for entry level tech jobs. Questions you might have: What is the blockchain? Why learn blockchain? Initial…
In continuing on from my last post, here’s the reflection of the last couple of days in the IT analyst Bootcamp. Morning commute and prep We officially started the hardware portion for the A+ certification. It seems more like review since I last did the 901 theory 3 years ago. The only difference now is that they’ve added mobile and cloud technologies. So far my experience in proactively learning these on my own helped.…
It’s been quite sometime since I’ve made a blog post. I’ve made it to five months without alcohol. I’ve managed to create a webcomic site and completed one of my art goals for this year. But more importantly, I finally have a pathway into the tech industry after many years. My Journey through Tech, is finally beginning with NPowerCanada’s Junior IT Analyst bootcamp. Thanks to the community employment services from my last prgram, I was…
I need to do an in person boot camp if I’m ever going to get into tech To be completely honest, my GitHub page sucks and that’s not okay. At the start of the year, I was determined to make an effort to take the necessary steps to land a developer job. Eleven months have passed and no progress. The reasons summed up to; fear(again), my father being diagnosed with cancer, working full time hours…
It’s been two months since my last bootcamp. Let the coding procastination begin! Sadly, I am no closer to the goal I set forth to complete by August 1st, 2019. From this previous post, I made my intention clear that I would do everything it took to finally land a coveted tech job. Yet now I find myself in a government funded skilled trades program. While I’m grateful for the opportunity and tactile experiences, I…
In my previous post, which can be read here, I outlined my steps into getting into a tech job in 2019. I made my git hub repository which you can see here. It’s pretty bare bones right now because I’m still a beginner learning the platform. I plan to upload the projects I do from the freecode camp curriculum here and the various coding cookbooks I’ve started to read. What is Github? Github is a…
A month into the new year means a new approach to a career. Institutional learning is still frustrating so I need fix that problem first. My past approaches to tech haven’t panned out because I had no proof of my work. I also haven’t broken the habit of fleeting from one thing course to another. In this article, I’m going to layout my plan for getting into tech by this time next year. 1) Research…