{"id":19,"date":"2023-01-24T22:57:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T22:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/peremeli\/?p=19"},"modified":"2023-01-24T22:57:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T22:57:49","slug":"13-going-on-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/peremeli\/2023\/01\/24\/13-going-on-32\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Going On 32"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I was in kindergarten, I wrote that my future career would be as a veterinarian. Given that my two bachelors have 0 involvement in biology, I&#8217;d say that plan didn&#8217;t pan out. However, I&#8217;m closer to finishing with a CS degree and looking at programmer roles. The interesting part is that I don&#8217;t know what I want to do. I&#8217;m a generalist, which recruiters have pointed out, is not good. Why? Probably because it makes their job more difficult. Where do you put someone who doesn&#8217;t have a definitive area of interest?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, I love learning and trying new things. You see this in my resume. I have a 50\/50 split in both academic and professional experience. Research experience with papers and experiments. Professional experience with a software engineering internship and QA full-time work. Rounding out my jobs are being an undergraduate learning assistant for(162, 225, 325) and customer service stints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Great! But, what about your future?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2640\ufe0f*shrugs*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still don&#8217;t know. I&#8217;ve been enjoying the graphics courses done by Prof. Bailey, so that&#8217;s a possibility. I&#8217;ll keep searching for jobs on my own leisure too. <em>(The difficult part is that I&#8217;m locked in the Midwest region due to my significant other&#8217;s job.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CodePath&#8217;s Android course is starting up in February, so I&#8217;ll use that as my last elective of sorts and continue learning Android programming. It looks like it has a new format too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before signing off, I should say that in the process of being a generalist, I have identified things I don&#8217;t and do enjoy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Things I don&#8217;t like<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Data analysis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Statistics \ud83d\udd25(#RIP first degree)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Machine Learning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cybersecurity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Upper division mathematics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Things I do like<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tutoring<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>front-end (full stack?)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>documentation and QA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Doing programming questions(even though I&#8217;ve been slacking)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>problem-solving<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Possibly academia, if I could find a research area I truly like<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>video games \ud83d\ude05<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope this blog post doesn&#8217;t come off as me complaining. Because it isn&#8217;t! It&#8217;s just another person in this big world being lost at what to do. I&#8217;m still grateful at the opportunities this program gave me. Now, the onus is on me to do the follow-up work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in kindergarten, I wrote that my future career would be as a veterinarian. Given that my two bachelors have 0 involvement in biology, I&#8217;d say that plan didn&#8217;t pan out. 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