Find a Job - 2024

I now have a job. I have been at it for more than a fortnight now. It is not exciting. I mean, it’s exciting that I have a job and an income, but the job itself is not exciting. It’s working on the app of an insurance company. I can only hope that it is stable and somewhat rewarding for a while. It looks like I’ll be involved in some tricky work. It feels about as corporate as you’d expect.

Things to note:

• I don’t deal well with unemployment. I find it very difficult to manage my own time when I don’t have a job to go to.
• I don’t like the interview process that is currently popular in software development. Having to spend time on code tests is extremely tiring.
• I like a 37.5 hour work week. 40 hours feels too long.
• Onboarding almost always fails.
• Background checks are irritating.

Hopefully I won’t have to do this again for a little while. I will try to figure out a better approach for job hunting. Probably dealing with all the mental health issues before I start looking for a job would be a good idea.

I have my CV out with a couple of different companies. I have shifts coming up at my neighbour’s coffee shop to keep me busy. I’m also applying for my RSA so I can do some bar work. I have found that hospitality work is a good change from software development. It’s good to be able to just come home and not think about stuff sometimes.

I got my first rejection for this round of job hunting. It was quite disappointing after getting to the third round.

This was the process that I went through:

• A half hour long screening and intro phone call
• An hour long live coding TDD exercise
• A two hour long live coding exercise and interview

I appreciated that I didn’t have to do a take home test. Two rounds of live coding was a bit intense though. Oh well. Given it was my first set of interviews for this time around, bombing out in the third round is OK. On to the next one.