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Missed yesterday

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I missed yesterday. But in my defense I worked through lunch as I have to take off 2 hours early for my doctor’s appointment today. I’m working through lunch today and tomorrow to make up the time. Taking a 15 min lunch is the easiest way for me to make the time up and not feel like I’m cheating.

Sammi has a doctor’s appointment today as well, for her ear. She didn’t do so well last night. By the time I got comfortable in bed she was up about 20 times cause she didn’t feel well. I tried to let her stay in my bed so I could sleep but that didn’t work either. I eventually laid down with her for a while till she was sleepy enough to sleep with me gone. Hopefully the doctor will figure something out and we can get this ear taken care off.

The Working Life

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I like my job. I like what I do. And even though it cuts out time on the internet I don’t miss much online. I miss my bestest friend the most. We don’t get to talk hardly at all, but we manage to stay in touch still, so yay!

I don’t so much miss facebook as I miss seeing what my family posts on a daily basis. I do try to catch up first thing in the morning as well as check my email.

Nights I come home, we eat supper, then we snuggle and watch TV or play the Wii. I only have 1.5 hours with the girls before bed time so it’s well spent time. Shea and I then read or watch TV till I need to go to sleep which for mean is no later than 9pm. Other wise I struggle out of bed before struggling the girls out of bed.

We get up in the morning, shower and eat breakfast and then to go school. I come home for about 30 minutes while I wait for my time to go to work. No paid overtime unless it’s asked for and really there hasn’t been a need as of yet.

Work Lunch Work and then we do it all over again lol. I could come home for lunch being I work literally 5 mins from the house, but then leaving is hard. I had to pick Sam up one lunch cause Shea’s truck decided to stop working and it was a pain leaving Sam, she wanted to come with me. While she can she’d be bored out of her mind and I’d rather her stay home with Daddy.

All in all it’s good I like it. The girls have adjusted well.

But it leaves little time to keep ya’ll informed or myself.

I like my job

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I know it’s only two weeks in, but I’ve been coding for a week straight – had three different specs tossed around and finally something I think we will start with. I’ve solved my biggest hurdle, the rest should be smooth sailing for this particular project.

I’m not sure I mentioned it but my official job is Web Developer/Data Management. So one of the things that I really need/want to do is take the tables and sketch out relationships in a visible way. There are almost 60 tables with varying degrees of foreign keys and the like. And it’s a true relational database as most sql databases are but this data is on Microsoft SQL server 2008. I’m only reading currently from the data so I don’t have to worry so much about the relationships in terms of deleting (yay!) but it’s a lot of data I need to know where it’s all at.

Shea reminded me again that he wished he could have a job he loved. And I must admit while I know I’m stressing over it (or was anyway) that I do really enjoy my job. I love coding and I love the problem solving even if it’s nerve wracking for a while. I hope this continues, it has been only two weeks.

Hello World

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For those people who aren’t programmers. One of the first tutorials/lessons you ever learn in a programming book/class is to output to the screen “Hello World”. I don’t know where it came from or why, but it’s everywhere in the programming world. So the pun is intended. I’m saying hello after starting a programming job.

I meant to do this yesterday but I chose to spend the time with the family. I miss my hubby and the girlies a lot, but all in all I’ve been too busy to think about it. Monday I didn’t work. Tuesday and Wednesday it was basically just researching and going through things I need. Thursday was a bit more actually work after my correct computer made it in. I still don’t have the right OS nor an email program, but hopefully that will be remedied soon as well.

Friday I actually started coding. I’m nervous, but I coded almost all of Friday. yay! It really is amazing how much like working at home it was. However I will have to bring in a headset, I’m sharing an office with the IT guy. He gets lots of calls and uses the speaker phone a lot and it’s distracting. I will have to put up a note/sign or get a mirror to hang so I know if people are there, since my back is to the door.

I found out after getting hired on that they will be moving offices in a few months, to Moss Point. I’m hoping not to far away, I really like the closeness, but we’ll see. When we move hopefully I’ll have my own office – another we’ll see.

I’m going to be a bit scarce while I adjust to the new life, so bare with me I do not intend to abandon my journal, my facebook or anything else of social internet. It’s just an adjustment I need to make.

Interesting First Day

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Today was an interesting first day at work. But it wasn’t a bad day. All in all I like the people I will be working with the most, so that’s good.

My day was “eventful” I guess you could say. My computer hadn’t arrived yet. It was out for delivery. No problem we went over what we could with out the computer. It came in relatively early in the morning. Then after we got it all set up, we started trying to install the software and it wasn’t going to work, it wasn’t the right computer type. So they started scrambling to figure out what happened and what to do. I should be getting my computer on Thursday, not sure how much coding I’ll get done before I get that but we’ll see.

I will be working on an iMac. It’ll be a challenge to pick up but I’ve always wanted to work on one so we’ll see how this goes. The only down side today’s computer was the mouse was a bit erratic. I think it was just this computer, I would move it one way and it would spaz out and go the other. It was annoying. Hopefully the new one will be better lol.

All in all it was a good day. I have a deadline for my first project so we’ll see how long it really takes me to code things lol. We’ll see if my current estimates are right or if I’m way off on things. I have some things I need to learn and start looking up and working on in my free time. I’ll have to make myself a list of skills to learn. Most of which are already on my so-called agenda, just haven’t gotten to them yet for whatever reason.

I am employed!

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As of Monday I will be gainfully employed. I was offered a position at Baber’s Corporate Office as a Web Developer. I am excited and nervous all at the same time. I’m going to miss my babies and my best friend, but I will be happy to be doing what I do so very much enjoy doing – coding.

The job is close to home – literally five minutes from the house. This is just a perfect job if there ever was one. I hope I do the company justice. I am nervous I’ll choke lol. But then I was nervous about the test too.

The tests today were nothing for me to fret over. They were based on PHP and SQL queries. Of course there were things that I didn’t get right away. I look a lot of stuff up! But it wasn’t a matter of getting a great “score” it was an assessment of my skills more or less. The second part of a test was to decipher someone’s code and tell him what it did. I think I did fairly well there with a few hints needed. The last part of the test was a code example. Basically he wanted me to spit out PHP that worked on a variable. It was probably the hardest of the tests because there wasn’t much information given and I had to find the inspiration to do something.

So I created an array of random numbers between 1 and 100. And had it output the random number, the sum of the number plus all other numbers before it in the array, it also output the sum of the current number plus the one before it and it decided if the random number was even or odd. What I liked most about this part of the test was that he liked the way the code read. So that was a big plus for me.

All in all I was gone about an hour and a half. The told me that they were going to speak with the owner/their boss and persue hiring me. Yay! They asked me when I could start. My reply was I needed a few days to get my wardrobe together as my business attire was small. So Monday was a good starting day.

BUT…

I got home and was on the phone with my Mom telling her the good news when I got a call. I didn’t recognize the number so I took the call. They wanted me to come in and take an assessment test. I said sure I could be back there in 15 minutes. No big deal but I was worried about what they wanted me to do. It turned out to be just your basic morality/ethics test. While there I also filled out all the necessary paperwork. Hopefully on Monday I won’t have much to do but we’ll see I’m sure there will be something – and a potential drug test.

All in all I’m still major excited and really nervous. But I know I can do the job and I am thankful for this opportunity, not only to do what I love, but to do it so close to home. (And to be able to work FROM home if necessary!)

Wish me luck and pray for me while I continue on this new journey. It’s going to be a very interesting ride!

Next Step

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I got an email this afternoon, asking me if I’d like to come in for a second interview and a 1-2 hour test. Of course I said yes. So at 9am on Monday I’ll be going in for attempt number 2 to impress.

I am nervous about the test. I haven’t programmed on the web with out being able to look things up I don’t use often. I really have no idea what I’d need to study. I suppose I should look into to Drupal a bit more and SQL queries just to be safe. But I’m not going to learn Drupal in two days. I can look into the differences between mySQL and SQL quickly I hope.

I am glad to get the call back. It means I at least made a good impression on them. I just wonder how many people will be taking said test. We’ll see I guess. I am going to need all the luck I can muster.

Wish me luck!

Interview Went Well

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I think my interview went well. I prayed for the strength to get through the interview and so many other little things I knew I needed help with. I thanked God profusely for the opportunity both for providing it and today after I finished the interview.

I hope that I get the job. It’s the perfect job if I like it. It’s close to home literally 5 minutes away from the house with traffic. It’s an 8 to 5 job so picks are easy etc. And I can telecommute if necessary on given days or if I have a deadline and need to work “late”.

The IT guy in the interview is a Wheel of Time reader. He threw me for a loop when he greeted me with ‘I see you’. I was literally speechless I mumbled I see you but I don’t know if he heard me. Later in the interview to break the ice he asked me who was better – Perrin or Mat? I didn’t answer right away cause I had to figure out who he was talking about. It wasn’t how I pronounce the names lol. But there is no question in mind what the answer to that is. Mat of course, but most people who know my online presence would know that… Matalina and all lol. He had just finished reading the books and has to wait for the last one. That made me chuckle, and I had to relay Shea’s story and mine and our long wait times.

My biggest concerns with the interview is my shyness and the fact that I don’t have a lot of Lead developer and fast paced developer under my belt. Those are the things that I feel will make me unacceptable. But I’m hoping I fit better than the others and I know I can do the job no matter how fast paced it is and how much stress it might cause. I really do want this job and I’m praying that the decision is made quickly. Either way I will hear back from them, so that’s a plus.

They didn’t seem too concerned I didn’t have iOS or Andriod under my belt, but I did emphasis during the whole interview, I love to write code, and learn new languages. I want to learn them but I just haven’t had the opportunity to do so yet. So here’s to hoping!

Interview – Part II

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My interview yesterday went well despite the power outage. A storm hit as my appointment time drew near and I was sitting in the HR office the power went out. The hiring manager had to hike up 7 flights of stairs to interview me. He apologized for being out of wind. I totally would have been as well.

Hopefully I’ll be hearing back soon on whether or not I got the job. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers, we need all the good luck we can use too. Thanks in advance lol.

Interview

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Good News! Finally! The girls and I went to the park today, and while we were there I got a phone call. It was HR at TeleVox a company in Mobile, that focuses on medical and dental practices. I have interviewed with them before I had kids – over 5 years ago.

It’ll be a big decision but really not in a position to say no if I get the job. Please keep me in your prayers and thoughts and your fingers crossed. My job interview is at 2pm on Thursday.