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 title: "My First Real Job"
 date: 2022-12-27T00:47:29-07:00
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-tags: ['career', 'advice', 'tom chronicle']
-summary: 'I take a trip down memory lane, explaining how I got my first real job as a developer.'
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-  caption: "Life is kinda like a Fantasy RPG, getting the job is the easy part, grinding for good loot is all that you got ahead."
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+description: 'I take a trip down memory lane, explaining how I got my first real job as a developer.'
+tags: ["$DAY_JOB", "thoughts"]
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+type: "post"
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 # What's a 'Real' Job?
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 During this hiring process, they took alot of my expertise and experience by my word, and I can only assume they did so because it seemed that my word was one they could trust. I think experience is great; lots of experience gives you the confidence to answer questions about previous problems you have solved, but experience isn't all, or possibly even, the majority of what gets you hired. I think alot of it comes down to your interpersonal skills, your charisma stat, how chisled your chin looks. Some of that you can't change easily, I think I was born with an above average emotional intelligence. But, I can't stess enough how important it is that you appear confident but not overbearing, and eager to learn and work. With everything today getting people to get as far away from socializing I R L, not having any grounded confidence in their abilities, I get the sense that a lot of qualified individuals just don't sell themselves enough. Want the job, and convince yourself you would be a great addition to the team.
 
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 If you could do a character stat reset on yourself and spec everything into one category, I think you should go all in on "Ability / Willingness to Learn". I think the sciency term is brain plasticity. But you don't need to spend 250 drupals to activate the stat reset, I think its a habit of thought, and can be a learned behavior. What do you do when you encounter a problem? Do you google it? What if google has no answers? What if the answer is "Read these 20 pages of docs"? Do you read them? Or do you say you are 'blocked' during stand up and let your team lead or that one guy that solves every mystery get to the bottom of it? If you can teach yourself something by gritting your teeth and stumbling along the way, only to realize your solution is magnitudes slower that its supposed to be, I think you are still leaps ahead of the snooty pampered rich mom's son who has kombucha and white granite counter tops at home to retreat to when he gets too 'whelmed with work. A wise woman said to me that grit is the greatest word in the english language, if you got enough of it, there isn't anything you can't do. Wise words I reckon.