For anyone interested: it doesn’t mention the price.

In all seriousness though, breaking things down helped me a bit. It can be useful in certain situations but of course isn’t a cure-all.

Or if you’re a neurodivergent with sensory sensitivities :'D

I can smell it haha. That fresh plant and earth smell mmm

My bad, ISTQB is the International Software Testing Qualifications Board, a software testing certification board, not a certificate. One of the certifications is Certified Tester Foundation Level. I’m reading about it now and it seems the syllabus got an update in May and there also are some older comments from around 2016 that the certificate matters little because it’s too easy to pass, I’m not sure how about the new one. The test costs more than 50% of a monthly minimal wage so I’ll definitely stay away from it.

It may seem like I’m too dead set on the portfolio thing but in here, the junior market is really tough (as it probably is the case anywhere else) so I think I really have to come with something that works. The number of offers is limited so I want to use these rare opportunities as best as possible so my reasoning here is that I have to make something, even though I’m better at solving real life problems than making up stuff.

On a more positive note, it seems that the worst of my low mood/burnout is over, I can dust one or two ideas I had put away and maybe, just maybe, I’ll get some progress in the upcoming days. Assuming I won’t get overwhelmed by all the information attacking me from all sides at once /hj

Good point. So far i figured out that I need some predictability but with a heavy dose of new knowledge. Maybe not every single day but once or twice a week at least. I like optimising, sorting things but enjoy doing creative things too. As you can see, I don’t have a super strong preference, maybe other than working with a smaller team. AFAIK most “tech oriented” jobs in IT cover that so there’s a lot to choose from, and that may be a drawback sometimes.

I participated in AOC last year, I think I made it to day 5, 2 stars for each puzzle. I have the solutions on github, I wrote a description for each of them and tbh I’m proud of myself that I did the puzzles and the notes too. It’s pretty neat.

That sounds nice :D

Just when I thought it couldn’t get any more complicated haha. I like the puzzle part though, I’m thinking in a similar way.

Initially I was going towards software, turns out WPF beat me, in a group project I had a portion that involved it and I just couldn’t do it. Making the buttons and all that was okay, backend too, but making them cooperate? No way. Sadly the other members weren’t very helpful and there’s surprisingly few in depth resources about WPF so I dropped it.

I don’t have any background in tech so everything I know, I learned by myself. I haven’t touched hardware yet, I know it’s in the program of “trade schools” which is an alternative to high school here so they’d have an advantage over me. There’s a limit to how much one person can learn simultaneously so I don’t know much about that for now. I’d like to reduce the even of “starting a million things and never finishing any of them” so I’m trying to limit myself a little.

I noticed that testers are in demand but it turns out that almost all offers require a ISTQB certificate, which costs quite a lot of money so it’s not available for me now. I have a limited amount of information about the position itself, I’m not sure what a tester really does outside of “tests things”. For some reason many people, not just testers, have a hard time describing in detail what they do. It’s probably because they have many different tasks so I understand, but it makes it difficult for me to get an idea of what the job is like. It feels like trying to navigate an unknown place, through a fog so dense you can barely see the fingers of your outstretched hand. There’s probably a solution to this but I’m not aware of it. Maybe AMA posts or something, I have no idea.

I had the same reaction, it’s good to find a new nook