{"id":18,"date":"2021-09-21T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/justinphillips\/?p=18"},"modified":"2021-10-27T02:06:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T02:06:47","slug":"week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/justinphillips\/2021\/09\/21\/week-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 5 Shooters Shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4688\/files\/2021\/10\/joedirt.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4688\/files\/2021\/10\/joedirt.jpg 320w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4688\/files\/2021\/10\/joedirt-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Just Keep on Keeping On<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So the search continues I haven&#8217;t heard back from any of the companies I applied to.Kinda feel like after all that work I am back to square one. So since it feels like I am at square one I am going to treat it like I am at the beginning again. I searched LinkedIn for any new posting where I will meet the basic requirements. I found a company called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pathpoint.org\/\">PathPoint<\/a> that is looking for a IT Technician. The requirements are a associate degree in computer science, technically i don&#8217;t have an associates but am 4 credits short of a bachelors so I applied. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4688\/files\/2021\/10\/were-talking-about-the-greater-good-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4688\/files\/2021\/10\/were-talking-about-the-greater-good-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4688\/files\/2021\/10\/were-talking-about-the-greater-good-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4688\/files\/2021\/10\/were-talking-about-the-greater-good-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4688\/files\/2021\/10\/were-talking-about-the-greater-good-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4688\/files\/2021\/10\/were-talking-about-the-greater-good.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For the Greater Good<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One cool aspect about PathPoint is that its a non profit organization not only do I get a acquire IT experience if I get the position but I also am doing good for the community.  PathPoint is a little bit outside the realm compared to many of the other companies I&#8217;ve applied to.But beggars can&#8217;t be choosers and if they are willing to take a shot on me I&#8217;d be willing to do my part back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"727\" height=\"843\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4688\/files\/2021\/10\/steve-carrell-space-force-livekindly-plant-based.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4688\/files\/2021\/10\/steve-carrell-space-force-livekindly-plant-based.jpg 727w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4688\/files\/2021\/10\/steve-carrell-space-force-livekindly-plant-based-259x300.jpg 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I Know People<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Well technically I don&#8217;t know people but my wife has a friend. A person who my wife works withes husband, works for the government in a GS postilion. In case you missed my earlier blog talking about GS positions. The <strong>General Schedule<\/strong> (GS) is the predominant pay scale for federal employees, especially employees in professional, technical, administrative or clerical positions. Anyways he knows that I am going to graduate soon and his squadron is opening a few spots for new computer science graduates. You start off as a gs-7 and every year go up as follows gs-9,gs-11 and finally after 4 years a gs-12. This is an excellent opportunity and could be a chance of a life time so I sent my resume as fast as the packets will travel. Fingers are crossed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just Keep on Keeping On So the search continues I haven&#8217;t heard back from any of the companies I applied to.Kinda feel like after all that work I am back to square one. So since it feels like I am &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/justinphillips\/2021\/09\/21\/week-5\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-start"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/justinphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/justinphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/justinphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/justinphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/justinphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/justinphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/justinphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/justinphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/justinphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/justinphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}