Rock fakies might be classed as a ‘beginner’ trick but the learning process for them is probably more painful than a lot of more complex tricks.
I’d still much rather to a 5.0 to fakie than a straight rock to fakie
For me it’s blunt fakies. I honestly reckon I’d sooner be switch tre-flipping down a 10 set than doing a blunt to fakie.
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Blunt fakies are easy when you get past the mental block - although I learnt mine with a like an Ollie out none of this back wheels first shit - petrified of hanging up.
Fucking miss blunt kikky in.
I literally don’t know how someone would prefer a 5-0 fakie to a rock fakie. That truck is so fucking scary.
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I think it’s because I can do them in one movement and it’s all in the turning of the shoulders. Whereas with rock fakies I never learnt them properly to begin with so then after that I couldn’t figure out how to shift my weight on them to rock back in, especially with proper decked ones. My brain always tells me to hesitate.
But no longer skating anything over 4 feet makes going to fakie easier now
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Ive hammered myself way harder on stupid little ramps than big ones.
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Whippy quarters everytime
You don’t have to wear masks when you’re outdoors here, is it different there?
Trying to find a house and waiting to hear back on an offer is proper stressing me out - keep waking up at stupid o’clock and not being able to get to sleep. Today was 3.30 (which is why I’ve been sat working for a couple of hours), had a particularly bad 1.30 at the weekend.
It will totally be worth it, but fuck me. Not fun.
Job rejections getting fucking depressing now.
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Yer hope so. Mines kicking in now as well.
May I ask what industry you’re looking for?
I only recently got on LinkedIn and from my short stint on there I’ve noticed a lot of positions suggested that I wouldn’t have found through Indeed. The algorithm is actually pretty good at suggesting jobs you might be suited to or would be interested in and you can get a decent sense of the qualifications and background that people holding similar roles in the company have.
Also, have you been on some of the subreddits for reviewing and analysing CVs? /r/resumes is solid. There’s also /r/jobsearchhacks
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I got my new job two months ago through LinkedIn, I wouldn’t really look to use much else to find something new.
Linked In anywhere, can I send my CV and Cover Letter to anyone.
E-commerce that’s what I know. Tempted to re train or something I don’t know. Had enough now, trying to not be bitter. Wehave our little company but will be a long time before we can take money from that. Fucked our first VAT return up.
Killing it
Not sure what you mean here tbh. But some jobs listed there allow you to quickly apply with one click. In some ways your profile is your cover letter, if that makes sense.
Have you considered one of those coding bootcamp things? A few mates and colleagues have done them and now are making stupid money even in the more simple coding languages. They can be done in 6 months and entry positions for some software engineering jobs are plentiful and relatively well compensated.
Also, there are some universities that allow you to do a graduate diploma - basically a condensed undergraduate which you can do in one year if you already have a degree in another subject.
I myself have returned to re-train as well. My first degree is pretty niche and I want to work in certain industries which my first degree doesn’t grant access to, so I’m back at university getting a second one. Hoping to come out with better job prospects at the end of it all.
Edit - also, being realistic, we’re not heading back en masse to offices for at least another 6 months, so this is a great chance to just learn something new remotely. I’ve been lucky with my own situation - when my work is quiet, I crack open the books and get studying. If I was in an office this would be impossible. Not sure of your current situation, but employers will definitely take favourably to the idea that you made the most of lockdown by adding a skill.
Stay positive. This recession here is temporary. Just remember - the ratio of jobs to applicants right now is hugely distorted given how many are out of work but things are expected to improve greatly. Also, many firms are just reluctant to hire new people right now as they don’t want to commit to new hires with all the uncertainty.
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this is a good idea. One of the top devs at my company was a tv programmer 5 years ago, lost his job at 40 (with twin kids) and pivoted by going through one of these bootcamps. i’ll try find a link to an article that tells the story.
Edit: Here’s the link:
Learning to code is a fantastic idea. I am not smart and am not techy by nature but i like problem solving. Once you understand the fundamentals of algorithms and basic code you’re basically breaking a big problem into small problems and solving those. The great thing is once you’ve spent time with one programming language you could easily pivot to a different one and have a CV full of weird words that sound attractive to employers
Yer maybe I should give that a go. Got any links?
This may be a good place to start without laying any money down - will give you an idea if it’s for you or not:
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ah nice one mate i was going to post that. Codecademy is a great starting place. there’s tons of similar online learning schools for coding/computing but theirs is one of the best for sure
the majority of techs that i work with had no formal higher education - no university, irrelevant A-levels. most of them taught themselves from books or websites like that
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Yep, this is me, I basically fluked my way into it and I’m about 12 years in, after completely bailing on my a-levels, dropping out of uni etc.
@nedertron, Codecademy is a good starting place, just make sure you have something of an objective to aim for. I.e “I want to build a website or app” or "visualise this data"etc.
It makes it a lot easier to frame stuff in your mind as you go through it. If you learn a bunch of random concepts it’s hard to make them stick unless you have something you can apply them to. Set yourself lots of challenges on top of the exercises in the course too. In your case I would recommend thinking about how you can integrate commerce platforms with what your learning.
And I can’t stress this enough - once you’ve got the basics down, take a look at some of the cloud training on GCP or AWS. You’ll be able to design, architect, build, host and scale it end-to-end. Certified cloud engineers are hot shit these days, if you can land yourself even an entry level gig on one of the big cloud providers you’ll be able to shop around at your leisure for jobs in 2-3 years time. Especially with ecom knowledge too. Which ecom platforms have you worked with?
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