#4 updates on previous posts
Oct. 16th, 2017 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarobunI read over some of my previous posts and thought it's interesting to see how things panned out in the end. So a few short updates in reference to those posts:
1) The team bonding went well enough. My presentation could have been better (humorous delivery was off for not having practiced it and feeling less at ease than when planning the jokes), but I brushed it off and acted like it was nothing because I assume that's what normal people do.
Although I hadn't gotten much sleep, I did enjoy most of the day. We watched Ironman at the end and I did enjoy the movie, thinking that I should re-watch it with Rachel and my mom sometime, and maybe start in on the Marvel material.
2) Vacation went relatively well. Lots of beautiful blue beaches. It was to the Virgin Islands, and we narrowly escaped before the hurricane hit. Now we have a bunch of pictures of the islands just before the scenery was demolished and changed for years to come. /:
There have been a lot of hurricanes. Actually, on the day we were going to fly to the islands, Harvey hit Houston, which was our connection, and we managed to get our flights re-arranged so we went through Chicago/Florida instead. It's been depressing to hear the coverage on Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
3) For the Facebook recruiter stuff, I decided to contact her and ask for her to reach out again in a few months, after all. I couldn't put together my resume on a short notice, so two weeks (at least) had passed when I got back to her. (We had a lot of social stuff going on when we got back from vacation!) But at that timing...
[I ended up writing a rant about work pay stuff that I put in another post because it was too long]
Basically around that time I felt I had a revelation about negotiating my salary and it motivated me to apply to some other companies, so I have a phone call next Tuesday and Thursday with two different companies. I hope that it incentivizes me to study for algos a bit and brush up, but look at me here writing a blog post at 1:15 a.m... Hehe... orz
I wanted to write more about some mooniness on my mom's part that I wanted to process, and then work on work today and study for algos, but I ended up writing that long rant about salary instead. It's good to get feelings off your chest, but I'm not sure how things will go at this rate. I have to hang out with people once or twice this week, leaving mostly the weekend to study, and supposedly I'm doing some sort of casual 10k this weekend too. So that leaves one day??
Writing takes time. (ಥ﹏ಥ)
1) The team bonding went well enough. My presentation could have been better (humorous delivery was off for not having practiced it and feeling less at ease than when planning the jokes), but I brushed it off and acted like it was nothing because I assume that's what normal people do.
Although I hadn't gotten much sleep, I did enjoy most of the day. We watched Ironman at the end and I did enjoy the movie, thinking that I should re-watch it with Rachel and my mom sometime, and maybe start in on the Marvel material.
2) Vacation went relatively well. Lots of beautiful blue beaches. It was to the Virgin Islands, and we narrowly escaped before the hurricane hit. Now we have a bunch of pictures of the islands just before the scenery was demolished and changed for years to come. /:
There have been a lot of hurricanes. Actually, on the day we were going to fly to the islands, Harvey hit Houston, which was our connection, and we managed to get our flights re-arranged so we went through Chicago/Florida instead. It's been depressing to hear the coverage on Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
3) For the Facebook recruiter stuff, I decided to contact her and ask for her to reach out again in a few months, after all. I couldn't put together my resume on a short notice, so two weeks (at least) had passed when I got back to her. (We had a lot of social stuff going on when we got back from vacation!) But at that timing...
[I ended up writing a rant about work pay stuff that I put in another post because it was too long]
Basically around that time I felt I had a revelation about negotiating my salary and it motivated me to apply to some other companies, so I have a phone call next Tuesday and Thursday with two different companies. I hope that it incentivizes me to study for algos a bit and brush up, but look at me here writing a blog post at 1:15 a.m... Hehe... orz
I wanted to write more about some mooniness on my mom's part that I wanted to process, and then work on work today and study for algos, but I ended up writing that long rant about salary instead. It's good to get feelings off your chest, but I'm not sure how things will go at this rate. I have to hang out with people once or twice this week, leaving mostly the weekend to study, and supposedly I'm doing some sort of casual 10k this weekend too. So that leaves one day??
Writing takes time. (ಥ﹏ಥ)
