Alright, let me try this again.

[magic oracle]

Huh. No feedback?

(My resume is perfect! Hurrah! 🥳)

[ocean arrow]

What is pre computer science in education? Also the bullet point under doesn’t really provide much?

Your phone number isn’t anonymized out

Don’t need physically located in

Also just your education block is huge. All people really care about is you have a degree, since your gpa is good you can leave it as well

[ocean arrow]

Your Twitter tone bullet two sounds incredible, but doesn’t feel phrased properly. You’re telling a story when the preferred formula is what’s in KJ’s sticky (used a to do b which resulted in c)

^ that formula goes for a couple of your bullet points.

Academic tutor bullet points are very verbose

[alpine echo]

So with pre-computer science you mention you chose to not have credits apply. Does that mean you essentially retook/relearned those classes when you went after your bachelor's elsewhere?

[trim panther]

Why two pages

Also why didn’t you block out your phone #?

Nitpicks: C/C++ pains me (they’re completely different languages), nobody does ms-dos

Many of your bullets feel too verbose , one line should be enough. Feel free to use weird grammar to make it work

Do you have no work experience?

[rare wadi]

the pre-computer science line is very weird and absolutely that second page is pulling your resume straight into whatever industrial sized shredder companies are using for their 1000+ applications stacks.

even if it's from mit like who cares, so long ago? why? also big use of space to say that you "learned" ... what does this mean? do you remember any of these learnings from 22 years ago? is it so profound whatever you covered in that time that it must be remembered and remarked on the resume?

the words "physically located" are they necessary?

[magic oracle]

A long story that shortens to "I messed up and forgot I had temporarily removed it to trouble shoot an alignment issue". 😅 Oops. At least that

A) Explains my first ever spam call I've received
B) Let me confirm that the phone number I'm using actually works for some people.

Reuploading that page with the number recensored. Thanks.

[magic oracle]

The pre-comp science thing was two disasters, one financial, one medical, that resulted in many failing grades, a terrible GPA, and me having to spend 17-ish years working to overcome the double setback to get back to school. By the time I made it back, I chose to utilize a legal thing in Texas that basically prevents those things from being considered when applying to a school. No hit to your look, but also no credit for the course. Since I also wanted to refresh those courses after 17-ish years away, it was a win-win-win for me.

But I also don't know how bad it is if I don't include that on my resume, since it will show up on transcripts, and probably background checks, etc.

@rare wadi I'm concerned about companies that would disqualify me for not including stuff that shows up on my transcript. Several job applications have had me attest that information I've provided is complete.

[magic oracle]

At the time, UT had too many applicants to let them all into CS, so they had a pre-screening process. I believe that's how it shows up on my transcripts.

And... I've heard companies care about tax implications for employment, particularly ones involving location?

[magic oracle]

I... do have work experience? It's on page two. None of it is programming (save for one or two tiny, one-hour things in Excel over the course of 13+ years at a job, maybe), because I'm a fresh, wet behind the ears grad who hasn't worked in almost a year, hence why it's not on page one. Partly because I needed a break after working for 17-ish years with only two vacations. Partly because *gestures vaguely at the job market*.

[magic oracle]

I'm not sure how/what to do with that second bullet point, then. I didn't 'use' anything to improve the performance beyond the tools and language we were already using. In fact, if anything, I basically just abandoned the .executemany() call in the mySQL Connector library because it just wasn't optimizing inserts like it claimed it should be doing, built the multiple-entry-insert line by line by hand in Python as a text string (quite possibly introducing an SQL injection vulnerability in the process, honestly, though one I probably could have fixed with mySQL's own sanitization code if I'd had more time), basically a text blob that was probably in the ballpark of a few hundred KB in size, and just shot the entire thing at the DB in one go.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en/connector-python-api-mysqlcursor-executemany.html
I'll steal from this page as an example:

data = [
  ('Jane', date(2005, 2, 12)),
  ('Joe', date(2006, 5, 23)),
  ('John', date(2010, 10, 3)),
]
stmt = "INSERT INTO employees (first_name, hire_date) VALUES (%s, %s)"
cursor.executemany(stmt, data)

Ostensibly, what their documentation claims is that the .executemany(stmt, data) call will see that it's an insert and build a query like so:

INSERT INTO employees (first_name, hire_date) VALUES ('Jane', '2005-02-12'), ('Joe', '2006-05-23'), ('John', '2010-10-03')

One query is fast, your code can move on from it. We were doing hundreds of data rows at a time.

Instead, I suspect that it was literally doing the following:

INSERT INTO employees (first_name, hire_date) VALUES ('Jane', '2005-02-12')
INSERT INTO employees (first_name, hire_date) VALUES ('Joe', '2006-05-23')
INSERT INTO employees (first_name, hire_date) VALUES ('John', '2010-10-03')

Which is what .execute() does. That's three queries. Imagine that with hundreds or thousands. Your code sits there sending query after query rather than moving on.

(I did try to take some time to look into the Python Connector's code for executemany() to see where it was supposed to be optimizing things, and I literally just couldn't find any code that was supposed to be doing it. At all. Now, this was basically my first large project with Python, so I had basically had to crash-course the language, so it's possible I missed the code somehow. But I don't think I did.)

All I did was rewrite code someone else on the team to be faster by working around Oracle's seemingly-unimplemented feature. 🤷‍♂️

I don't know how to translate "mySQL's stuff seemed broken, I worked around the brokenness" into "Used A to do B".

(I'll happily take suggestions on wording for that, now that I've explained what I did in more detail.)

(And if anyone wants to see if I missed some form of optimization, I believe the code might still be this version: https://github.com/mysql/mysql-connector-python/blob/5a7fd2329d6d40acfbafbc3243fb275c7d6681ee/lib/mysql/connector/cursor.py#L1401C46-L1401C46)

[rare wadi]

This is a ridiculous concern, it's 20 years. Maybe make. A note if they specifically say something like that but even if they do it's too anal for them to take it seriously. The lying on background check thing is when they think you're dishonest about work history. I don't think the transcripts are under such scrutiny, especially for such old entries. Do they even actually read the transcript or just accept it as proof of graduation? Anyhow seems like a waste of space to me and you absolutely must get it down to one page.

[trim panther]

Meh, i think it’s fine- i don’t list off every class I’ve ever taken in my resume

By the time you get to the background check stuff, the company wants to hire you

[ocean arrow]

“Rewrote implementation of MySQL executemany function in python library resulting in 90% faster insert speeds”

The story doesn’t matter, how you solved it doesn’t matter, it’s about what you did and the outcome

[ocean arrow]

They don’t care. If they do, they’ll ask if you’re open for relocation. If you’re just applying for remote roles I still don’t think that’s an issue because your state tax rate should be wherever that company is located

[ocean arrow]

Most jobs won’t even ask for your transcript. You can have two lines saying each degree, but the bullet point of credits is irrelevant

[hazy cove]

bump

[shell anvil]

post update

[hazy cove]

@hard urchin

[hard urchin]

Yeeee

Let's get a glimpse at this warlock

[hazy cove]

yeah @magic oracle the main problem is 2 pages that’s like 👎

but we will see

[hard urchin]

There's definitely places you can cut length

You need education, skills projects, and work history on 1 page

And that's entirely doable

It will be an abridged work history, but it should show you're not getting your first ever job

[magic oracle]

aaugh, hold on, let me get it. Going to take a second to spin it up. Stupid LaTeX. Or should I just do RTF? I'm not finished formatting that.

[dawn yew]

this thread is long

[hard urchin]

Your big 15 years of work history, can you break that into companies?

We need to truncate that for your resume, but how we truncate that is going to matter

[hidden haven]

With what money? I'd have a break a lease just to move now, and then I'd have, what, a new lease there? Which I'd then have to break to move elsewhere? I'll admit that I don't have a large range of experiences in terms of "living life" so, dumb question time, but is there some sort of form of housing where I can just flounce off whenever I want to?
ask for relocation

[hard urchin]

The good news is that this is totally doable as a 1 pager.

[magic oracle]

It was all for a single company. Sorta. They got sold off, bought up, then bought up another company and transferred the building to the purchased company, but at the end of the day it was all still, principally, a single corporate entity paying my checks.

[hard urchin]

The bullet points are not great

[hidden haven]

you can list different roles at the same company if it's to your advantage

[hard urchin]

If the company changed ownership you just list it as the last name you worked for it as

[dawn yew]

Okay so - one thing that instantly strikes that I’ll bring up is - based off of the assumptions with your background + looking at your resume

[magic oracle]

I... think I did? Yeah. I did.

[magic oracle]

Ditto. It's that last entry.

[magic oracle]

How does that even work? Do I work while also driving across the country? How much time do people typically have to get moved/settled?

[hazy cove]

would benefit from more quantitative data of the work you did

[hidden haven]

they pay for your move

totally normal

[hazy cove]

i.e improved X process by Y% through thing I did

[dawn yew]

not sure how to phrase it tbh but the resume did not align with what you have described as your life experience so far

[magic oracle]

Also, I've got neuron problems that require a Schedule 2 drug for treatment (same level as cocaine), which adds additional complexities. Finding a doctor willing to deal with the legal complications of prescribing it, the wait time in doing so, etc.

[dawn yew]

your experience should be on 1st page

[magic oracle]

First project, second bullet point.

[dawn yew]

not the projects

it should all be on 1 page

[hazy cove]

yeah but your work

if I’m hiring i have a shit load of people looking for this role. What I want to see is data I stop and look at

this is a minor detail

[magic oracle]

This does not parse. What?

[hazy cove]

“Yes, but can you do it for any of the work experience too?”

is what I meant

[hard urchin]

Do you have time later for a screen share? I'd rather spend 10 minutes helping you line edit this than try doing it in bits and pieces via my phone.

[magic oracle]

Oh. 🤔

[shell anvil]

@magic oracle were you paid for the undergraduate research?

[magic oracle]

Nope. Only in (unneeded) college credits. I did it for the fun/experience, honestly.

[magic oracle]

Sure, probably.

[hard urchin]

I can do tonight at 5:30 central.

[dawn yew]

imo

[magic oracle]

I'll set an alarm.

[dawn yew]

your tech stack

[hard urchin]

I need to go pitch this project quick

[dawn yew]

is too over the place

If I’m an HM I have no clue where to put you on

or what work you would have most success in

[fervent linden]

does this matter? if you need to meet in person to get a new prescription just drive the 4 hours it takes to get it

[hazy cove]

@hard urchin is a real one for offering that

I respect that

[hard urchin]

Step 1, fix the formatting on this resume.

Step 2-N, look at future skill development

Right now Endurium has what they have

Let's at least get them a useable resume

[dawn yew]

to cover every stone out there make it Latex parseable using something like open leaf template (Jake’s) - but I don’t even think it’s a big issue

make resume more targeted and focused

it’s all over the place

decide what you wanna do and aim for it I think

[shell anvil]

this is my quick feedback

[magic oracle]

Are you suggesting I need a time machine to go back and somehow avoid working on certain things?

[dawn yew]

No in the skills listed and your projects etc

[hard urchin]

Largely agree, with minor differences

[shell anvil]

bullet points need work but i dont want to go through each one

[hazy cove]

I found the compiler project really grabbed my attention

and undergrad research if you’d expand better

just my immediate reaction to the project section

[fervent linden]

usually people fly and just hire movers. if you don't need any of your stuff you can just dump/sell it and arrive with the bare minimum checked luggage

[hard urchin]

Lived in a motel for 2 weeks for my first job

It sucks

[magic oracle]

I am wildly confused by this, since this literally is that template.

I've found it's terrible for being parsed by the sites I uploaded it to, which is why I'm seriously considering moving away from it. I don't think a single site has correctly parsed it.

[hazy cove]

it’s not the format right now that’s most important, ignore him
this feedback is what you should be paying attention to imo

vagorge has some good points and I agree with pretty much all of it

[magic oracle]

Thanks, making adjustments (with a chainsaw) now.

[dawn yew]

you can place things and include things that are relevant to stuff that could get you hired for roles that exist

For example - there’s lots of JS jobs working on full stack dev - so a recruiter/HM will look for relevant projects , technologies , etc. - and evaluate their interest.

For example if I’m an HM - I run a team of 6 engineers - I have an opening - I get 2 resumes.

1 resume is of a person who has bunch of C++ , systems programming , embedded stuff , backend stuff , Java , and only 15-20% JS.

Other resume is someone who has less info - doesn’t know any other stuff - but only has JS and job related tech

even though candidate 1 might be more impressive - the HM might choose the 2nd person because person 1 can do better and won’t like the work

[dawn yew]

if it’s Jake’s and it’s made with latex it’s fine

it’s market , people are applying to 500 roles and getting 1 response

It’s your content etc. - it doesn’t need to be 2 pages

[magic oracle]

Wait, seriously don't mention the fact that I attended school at a different university (and basically failed out)? I've had jobs literally force me to swear up, down, and sideways that I wasn't "hiding" past educational experience.

[hazy cove]

4.0 summa cum lauds

all I read

That’s the big thing

[dawn yew]

so as a rule - 0yoe as ft engineer = NEVER more than 1 page. It’s instantly filtered as fluff because how many students do u think tru to add content?

[hazy cove]

why does the other school matter you didn’t graduate from it right?

[scarlet glacier]

You don't need to mention anything you don't want to.

[dawn yew]

to make it seem big

[magic oracle]

I'm confused. I can't put something on my resume I don't have.

[hazy cove]

4.0 summa cum laude = this guy did well in school and graduated from this one and that’s all I, as a busy recruiter/HM, am looking to see for his education (take this with a grain of salt, I am not either of those two jobs)

[fervent linden]

you can put anything you want. a resume is just an advertisment. it's not a background check

[dawn yew]

I’m saying basically if Im a HM and there’s 3 teams on my company - reading your resume doesn’t paint a clear picture of what you want to do and what you’re interested in

[magic oracle]

It doesn't matter, and I actually went out of my way to have to retake literally everything, where no credits from it carried over. But, again:
I've had job applications where I had to sign on a line swearing I had included all past educational history, which gave me the impression it was important info.

[hazy cove]

sign something? I don’t think that is normal, is it?

[magic oracle]

Okay. I'll rephrase: I'm not comfortable lying about having experience I don't have.

[shell anvil]

no one is telling you to lie

[magic oracle]

Yes. Legitimately "type your full name here in agreement that you are including a FULL history of education blah blah blah".

[visual cliff]

That's not common

Just skip apps that need you to do that

[magic oracle]

😅 I can't afford to be picky, but... I get your message.

[scarlet glacier]

Agree

[fast sinew]

I could see that if it were for like a government/clearanced role but outside of that I've never seen one

[hard urchin]

Desired Jobs > Content > Formatting > ???

Is the order you need to debug the resume

So put some thought into what kinds of coding roles you want to target

[hazy cove]

im not comfortable selling my software as I’m an engineer not a business guy
But I do it because nobody else will

It can be like chewing glass for technical folks like us but accepting it and learning how to best be pitching yourself is critical

[dawn yew]

If you want create 3 different resumes

tailored to jobs

[magic oracle]

At this point I legitimately don't care. Job. Code. I want to solve problems. Back end, front end, side end, upside down end, whatever.

[hazy cove]

trust me it sucks and makes you feel uncomfortable but you have to do it for the greatest odds
Nobody said lie but nobody said downplay yourself / not showcase yourself in the absolute best light

[dawn yew]

do you have an example of a job you thought you would be a good fit for?

[hard urchin]

If you dont know what roles you want to target or dont understand the types of jobs, let's start there

[dawn yew]

and you think your resume not being proper filtered you out?

[hazy cove]

+1

[scarlet glacier]

Caring will help

[magic oracle]

Honestly, no, because I don't have any experience and have no idea what jobs in this field are even like, much less what variety might exist.

[hazy cove]

you did compiler work

[dawn yew]

This makes so much sense

[hazy cove]

systems programming interests you?

[scarlet glacier]

I know it's unintuitive because you're like "I just want a job", but targeting helps outcomes

[dawn yew]

your resume DOES NOT read off like that

your resume reads off to me at least in a way really throwing me off based off of everything you’re saying

[magic oracle]

(It's hard to rewrite a resume and chat here simultaneously. 😆)

[hard urchin]

I'm going into a meeting here, but the first big decision you should make is whether you want to work somewhere in the webdev paradigm or somewhere outside of it.

[magic oracle]

wat

[hard urchin]

Systems programming is a very different target than says backend webdev

[hazy cove]

yeah so

• paint yourself in the best light when you rewrite this but obviously don’t go crazy
• figure out your job target; are you going to target frontend or backend or possibly even systems
• only education section that matters (imo) is: your 4.0 summa cum laude. That’s awesome and what I care about
• and use vagorges feedback
  programming? Devops?

indeed

[dawn yew]

basically what I’ve been trying to say the entire time not sure how to convey the message

ideally your resume is designed so that if it lands in someone’s hands - they should think that “Endurium” would be excited to work here - let’s interview him and see if he’s interested!

[magic oracle]

I don't know?
I've been dabbling with code since... I dunno, '95? I liked doing it. I like troubleshooting tech/IT problems, too. I wanted a job that wasn't retail, so CS seemed like a good choice. So I got a CS degree to shore up holes in my knowledge/understanding.

What kind of job do I want? A job that gives me money to solve problems.

[dawn yew]

currently your resume is too broad for example for the common JS example I gave which is a common job out there - imo if I was an HM and I even wanted to hire you - I’d not follow up thinking you wouldn’t be interested (based on the resume)

[hazy cove]

So your best option atm is for us to stop talking and let you go rewrite it and we’ll take a look at it once you’re done

👍

It’s a iterative process

[shell anvil]

do the updates i have given 🙂

thank you

[dawn yew]

basically this - targeting and being strategic about resume will make a massive difference

[magic oracle]

I will say that, on a personal level, I despite the subscription model, you own nothing philosophy that seems to be the new paradigm, so anything as far from that as possible is ideal. I get the feeling 'webdev' feeds directly into that paradigm, so it'd probably be on the more unenjoyable end of the spectrum.

[magic oracle]

I'm working on it. Or trying to. 😆

Speaking of:

[dawn yew]

also probably best to be open minded and unopinionated

you never know what might offend people or the recruiter or engineer or HM and take it the wrong way and could prevent you from getting the job

[magic oracle]

Built a Bash script to work around a file-piping flaw in ported Assembly code that had been plaguing a professor for a decade.
You suggest rewriting this. I'm not sure how.

Problem: Assembly was Windows/MASM, taught out of a textbook by Kip Irvine. Textbook provided proceedures built with MS-DOS/Windows design in mind, which meant that file-piping was not even an option.

Compilers course was taught on Linux.

Ten years ago, a graduate student ported some of those Windows-based procedures over to the Linux box, got them working just enough that a casual use of them functioned fine... but they didn't account for file piping. So if you built an executable binary from them and then tried to pipe input from a file into the executable, the executable would accept the first line of input, and dump the rest to /dev/null.

It was a problem the professor had been working around for a decade.

I learned about FIFO pipes and realized you could probably use them to work around the problem, and so I built about 98% of a script to do just that, with a Linux guru acquaintance helping me with the very last tiny piece.

Boom. Workaround script achieved, professor now hands it out to every student in his class.

How do I 'rewrite' that? 😆

[magic oracle]

I'm aware that I probably shouldn't be insulting anything during interviews. I'm not getting interviews, however, so that seems like a problem for another time.

[visual cliff]

Maybe talk about the fifo pipe

[magic oracle]

Built a Bash script to work around a file-piping flaw in ported Assembly code that had been plaguing a professor for a decade by using FIFO pipes.

[visual cliff]

"Using fifo pipe and other fix"

What's the other bit of magic

[shell anvil]

im not a fan of the "plaguing a professor for a decade"

[visual cliff]

Also the plaguing a professor part seems unnecessary

[shell anvil]

it can be taken in a negative way very quickly

[visual cliff]

It is negative

Just stick to what you accomplished

[magic oracle]

Uh, if I understand Linux correctly, it's spinning up a subshell per line of text, and piping the output of that subshell to the pipe?
PseudoCode-ish:
./executable < namedPipeAlreadyCreatedEarlier &
(a loop echo-ing one line of text at a time < fromTextFile.txt) > namedPipeAlreadyCreatedEarlier

https://github.com/JEnduriumK/unofficial-angelo-edu-helpers/blob/main/irvine_test.sh

[visual cliff]

Maybe multiple shell sessions?

Is that a way to phrase it? Not a bash wizard

[magic oracle]

Built a Bash script to work around a file-piping flaw in Assembly code ported from Windows to Linux using FIFO pipes.

I'm not 100% confident of the truth of the subshell thing, myself, so I'm hesitant to also mention it in the resume. If I'm wrong, then... 😬

[visual cliff]

Well you could probably leave it at that

Seems like a good bullet point

[magic oracle]

Wrote multiple additional tests, four of which covered code not covered by the professor’s tests and are now used by him.
I honestly don't like this entire bullet point either, and would love to drop it entirely, but it felt like a useful place to namedrop tests for AI filters. So... I don't know what to do with it.

[shell anvil]

dont worry about filters

[magic oracle]

Seriously?

[shell anvil]

yes, write your resume for when you have to talk about it in a interview

[magic oracle]

(So just drop the bullet entirely?)

[shell anvil]

If you cant/dont want to speak about it yes

[magic oracle]

I mean, I suppose there's not much to say about it. There were elements of the compiler that weren't tested by the provided tests. I plugged a few of those holes. Those tests are now part of the curriculum. Nothing special.

[shell anvil]

yeah its fine to drop IMO

[magic oracle]

this project can be a lot better
Honestly, there's nothing particularly special about the project. I just took an algorithmic concept and converted it to (honestly probably badly performing) C++ code. It was research and everyone keeps telling me "research is good, include it on the resume!" but... do I just drop the thing entirely?

[shell anvil]

dont delete yet. see how long your resume is first

skip it for now

[magic oracle]

What class was tutored, what things were tutored
... I can't think of a single class someone approached me for that I couldn't help with. I even had a Masters student in there a couple times asking for help with Python. So... all of them? But listing out every single class I can remember tutoring for seems like it'd make my resume longer.

It was primarily troubleshooting or conceptual education. "Here's how things are working under the hood, now that you know that, can you tell me why accessing array[28] is making the program crash? Yes, exactly. Fix that, and you should be good."

[shell anvil]

You werent just a DSA tutor?

you were a tutor for everything?

[magic oracle]

Data Structures and Algorithms? Nah. That was definitely a large portion of the people coming in? But I also tutored Compilers, the MySQL course I was actively taking at the time, Compilers (one of the only students they'd ever had who could tutor that one), Mobile Game Development, Operating Systems, whatever the "intro to programming using data analysis techniques in Python for people who lack CS degrees but are doing a Masters in CS" class was, and likely others I'm forgetting.

Hell, I was helping two students with Compilers last night. I enjoy helping people solve problems.

[shell anvil]

well if you put that you tutored for all those classes

they are going to think you are capping

[magic oracle]

I mean, my first OS was IBM-DOS. I remember MS-DOS 6, and the need to switch to MS-DOS 6.2 due to file corruption caused by the drive compression algorithm they may have stolen from another company. I was watching drives defrag before I was 10, and wrote TI-BASIC programs in math class for fun and to make the work easier in the 8th grade. In 11th or 12th (I forget) I took a C++ course back... possibly a version of it from before it was standardized into C++98?

I've dabbled. Tutoring those courses was easy, and fun. It's all just code. Code's easy.

I need to go adult in meatspace, back in a bit. Thanks for the help, I'll make more changes in a bit.

[hard urchin]

@magic oracle jump into voice chat if you still want to review youre resume.

[magic oracle]

Partial changes...

[hidden haven]

I bet you can fit that education onto one line

although I guess if you want to put the 4.0 on there, which is probably good, you might need the second line

[hard urchin]

You dont get a 4.0 to not tell people you have a 4.0

[magic oracle]

Sorry, to clarify: Finding a new primary care physician in my area when my old one stopped being available was about a six month waiting process. This actually isn't unusual for the area. They have a whole interim system in place to handle people until they have a PCP. One of the very first things I was warned about when entering this system was that the person covering me in the interim had gone out of their way to track down one of the few doctors in the area willing to prescribe these drugs.

The prescriptions are only 30 days, and only every 30 days. There are no, and can never be any, prescriptions longer than that, not under any circumstances.

It means that if/when I move, I'm at a high risk of essentially having to try to manage without the medication as I attempt to find a doctor willing to prescribe it. And depending on wait times, that might be for weeks, if not months.

It won't directly kill me, like a diabetic without insulin, but from experience I do know that I'll struggle with certain basic life tasks, to the point of risking things like car accidents, as well as my malfunctioning brain missing vital things like deadlines, as well as struggling with things like a job.

They aren't wildly debilitating effects, but they're bad enough that the better alternative to the impact of the neurological disorder is prescribing a drug on the same level as cocaine.

Hence why I'm wildly nervous about trying to uproot my entire life while also trying to start a new job. Any move will likely be accompanied by a degradation in my abilities to do my job until I can establish a medical relationship.

These impacts are fewer and less severe if I'm already familiar with the job and my role within it, as I can plan around the impacts.

(And, due to the Schedule II nature of the drug, doing weird things like seeking out a doctor four hours from your home is viewed as suspicious and sometimes reason to refuse care.)

🎵 ✨ America! ✨ 🎵

[fervent linden]

i'm saying continue to commute back once every 30 days to get your medicine. you don't need to get a new doctor

[magic oracle]

Ah, that makes more sense. Thanks. It's an idea.

It's three-to-six hours one way, depending on the city (Texas is big), so I'd be looking at an six-to-twelve hour drive ||(in my 2003 Hyundai)||...
Every thirty or so days for actually collecting the medication.
Additionally every ninety days for mandatory appointments that don't include other issues. (The timing on this would not align with getting the medication.)

Hopefully in timeframes that somehow align with work in a non-disruptive way. Easily could end up during a weekday.

With the added complication of pharmacies sometimes insisting they don't have the prescription (as happened two weeks ago when I went to pick them up, a shockingly frequent occurrence that resulted in me having to do without for several days while doctors offices and pharmacies blamed each other for the issue) that might necessitate me driving a second time a day or two later. ||(It was the new guy behind the counter not yet having been fully trained on how to look things up, and no one realizing he might be making an error and stepping in. Not his fault, but frustrating.)||

Not nearly as big of a risk as doing without for several months, but still not an idea I relish. Still... possibly doable. I'll keep it in mind if I end up having to uproot myself and still not leave the state like I want to.

(There's also a shortage that has been going on for months, but is a complication I'd have to deal with regardless of anything at all, anywhere. However, added distance adds a wrinkle in that sometimes a pharmacy won't tell you if they have the stock unless you have a prescription with them, due to not wanting to be targeted for theft. Sometimes you can ask in person, but that would still require a trip, and possibly two due to the two+ day process of getting the doctor's office to move the prescription over, since you can't do a normal transfer like other medications. It's seriously a nightmare.)

[magic oracle]

From @shell anvil,@hard urchin's and others' assistance (thank you), an... in progress? adjustment.

[magic oracle]

(Still open to feedback.)

[fervent linden]

The reason I suggested commuting every month to get your medication is because that expands your search to the major metros around you. Once you get there you can eventually move your prescription over. The main thing is that major metros have airports. That'll allow you to interview at places that are much further away. Say you get a new job a flight away, you'll be able to repeat the process and commute back by air instead of car

Sometimes the path to get the job you want is indirect. I.e. you'll need a stepping stone along the way. Large problems seem impossible unless you can break them down

[hard urchin]

Looking much better. Just need to clean up the wording on the project bullet points.

[magic oracle]

commute back by air
The possibility of ever earning enough money to actually do that is... not even something that had crossed my mind. Feels fairly wasteful, but, eh, gotta do what ya gotta do maybe? Still very nervous about six-to-twelve hour drives when sometimes I can't even drive the five minutes to pick up my meds and be able to trust that they're waiting for me. But it's a good idea to keep in mind.

[magic oracle]

Yeah, I'm going to have to devote some time to that later.

I must say I'm getting very frustrated at how badly parsing algorithms are handling this template though.

I basically upload the resume, then have to delete everything and redo it all.

[hard urchin]

Yeah, I don't think I've come across many of those HR parsers that read out the resume on the first try.

[shell anvil]

you dont need Physically located in ____

[hard urchin]

^ good catch. Just put your address in the top.

[scarlet glacier]

Or just nothing

[magic oracle]

I realize that my resume isn't really built for help desk in mind, but it still stings that I've already got several responses back from help desk jobs I decided to just throw my resume at "just in case" (because it seems like job postings get closed in about 12 hours these days, so it was that, or just not apply) that are also not even letting me past the first hurdle.

[shell anvil]

you're probably not going to get bites for a helpdesk

you arent what they are looking for

you are over qualified for the position

[magic oracle]

Well, I need something, and I'd rather not deliver pizzas. Not that I think they'd hire me either, since they'd probably be worried I'd quit in a month because I have a CS degree.

[shell anvil]

yes exactly

[magic oracle]

So if I can't get the jobs I'm qualified for, and I can't get jobs I'm overqualified for...?

[shell anvil]

you keep trying for the ones you are qualified for

and hold the current job you dont like

[magic oracle]

That's my problem. I've been burning through savings after college looking for work. I don't have a current job, because I can't get hired anywhere.

[shell anvil]

you may think im trolling but instacart in your free time. you'll clear about $150 a day

but

idk you have to make the decisions

your resume is better then before

it could be better

apply for every job under the sun.

practice leetcode

be interview ready (study)

so when they do call you

you nail it out the park

[magic oracle]

No, I legitimately have started eying things like that, because it's looking like that's my only option at this point. I don't think it's a joke at all.

[shell anvil]

it will keep you afloat

and it will be flexible

[magic oracle]

I am concerned about this town being too small to support that... and my car being too small. Tiny little hatchback. But... yeah, I might have to do that. I... don't know how much more energy I'll have after that to look for jobs, though. Which is going to suck.

[shell anvil]

well think of getting a job is

a full-time job

[magic oracle]

Yeah, two full-time jobs is going to be exhausting.

[shell anvil]

yes, i agree.

there is a light at the end of the tunnel though

[magic oracle]

I legitimately think I can't at all succeed at my first interview. I haven't had an interview in... nearly a decade. The last one was for a role I had already quasi been doing to some degree, and they didn't like how friendly/relaxed I seemed. And I've never done a CS-themed interview, so I've got very little idea of what to expect I need interviews to have an idea of what to expect, so I can know what to prepare for. So... my first interview won't go well. Second, six months later... who knows.

[shell anvil]

interviewing is a skill

thats why i apply to every job

and accept every interview

no matter where in the country it is or the pay

[magic oracle]

Yeah, that was my goal, specifically for that reason... I've been offered zero interviews in months. So that's not going well.

[shell anvil]

i would re sort your resume to Education - Projects - Experience - Skills

IMO

Include a couple bullet points for the Tutor one

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?currentJobId=3765916640&f_E=2%2C3&f_TPR=r604800&keywords=Software Engineer NOT Dice&origin=JOB_SEARCH_PAGE_JOB_FILTER&refresh=true

and everyday

go through this list

multiple times if you have to

[magic oracle]

"NOT Dice"? 😅

[magic oracle]

But yes, that's where I've been looking. As well as occasionally other sites which don't seem as well regarded by what I can judge from other conversations I've seen.

Must have graduated from an accredited college or university since May 2023, or will graduate by June 2024
Must have obtained degree within 12 months of start date
Great. Now even these kinds of jobs are starting to no longer be options for me to apply to. 😩

[hard urchin]

Good chance your first interview won't turn into a job. Just sit it anyway.

Do your best. After you've sat a few you'll start to reacquire the skill, get more comfortable answering the questions, and get an idea for what kind of technicals are asked.

[fervent linden]

is practice makes perfect not a thing anymore?

[hard urchin]

I'm not trying to be discouraging.

Job interviews are like Tinder matches. Sometimes you stick your foot in your mouth. Sometimes you say everything right and they still don't turn into anything. Any one of them could turn into something lasting or could completely fizzle. All you can do is keep trying and make sure you put your best foot forward each time you roll the dice.

But they do get easier once you've bombed a few.

[fervent linden]

all i'm saying is that there's no excuse for being rusty interviewing

it's still a thing. at least the front page loads https://www.pramp.com/

[rare wadi]

there's also interviewing.io for similar but different branded experience-building. maybe you can find a discount across one or the other site

[fervent linden]

interviewing.io is $$$. it's prolly only worth it if you're going for #big-n-discussion

[magic oracle]

I've made additional tweaks and come seeking any other feedback, as I'm still looking months and months later. Still zero interviews.

[magic oracle]

As a former choir director once told me: only perfect practice makes perfect. If you practice things badly, you will remain bad.

[magic oracle]

"Hilariously", one of the tweaks I made was that I had forgotten I also had a second minor, in English. I got it by near-accident. My normal required course load basically just put me a class or two away from the full minor, so I just... knocked out the last remaining classes as an afterthought. It essentially wasn't a goal, so it wasn't something I was focused on, so it slipped my mind.

Oh so funny. </deadpan>

I also removed a language or three, like Assembly, because the more I dig into those languages the more I think I've only waded in the kiddie pool end of them, and wouldn't be able to have a meaningful conversation about them.

[fervent linden]

sure, an excuse not to practice?

[magic oracle]

No, I'm fine with practicing. Merely commenting.