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As I write this, it has been four months since I left my previous job. I didn't anticipate the difficulty of finding a new one, but this period has taught me valuable lessons about life, work, relationships, and family. I have no complaints about resigning because it was a decision I made personally. I was prepared to accept the risk and face my limitations, understanding my weaknesses and utilizing my experiences and knowledge. At times, I lacked the energy to push myself to try something new, and it felt like a battle between discipline and giving up. I am considering improving my programming skills, but I will have to do it alone this time. My friends are occupied with their own work and personal lives, which is understandable as I was too when I was working. As time passes, I have noticed my bank account gradually decreasing. However, I am not too concerned about this as I have had some prosperous months this year and experiencing a few financially scarce months will help me ap...

Yesterday, I had another job interview. Since I'd had no response from my last one, I decided not to worry about my first contact with possible jobs that day. So, I decided to focus on exercise after morning programming. While I was exercising, I realised that I was late, so immediately finishing my exercise routine, I turned on my laptop and waited. Here I go again, I thought. I'll see what's coming now. Surprisingly, the interviewer was much more friendly than my other experiences. He asked me about my background, including my college background and my latest job experiences. While I related my history, he showed interest in what I said and asked interesting questions without interrupting me. I could describe my past experiences in detail. I overlooked the time because the interview was more like a talk than an interrogatory; that was a good green flag I hadn't seen in a job interview for a while. Maybe I screwed up when I told him about my last experience and why I d...

Yesterday, while checking out my laptop, I realized the year is over; three months separate us from 2024, so I decided to google the days until New Year's Eve. To my surprise, I found that it remains a hundred days until we celebrate again for another year. That makes me wonder how I will invest these remaining hundred days. Will I do something significant during these last months? How will it end? I don't have the answer to these questions; only the time will tell whether or not I'll leverage this year. During the first couple of months, I had a job, a stressful one, I have to say, but in my mind, I wouldn't have the idea of remaining there for so long. I had the goal of applying for scholarships, specifically the Swedish program scholarship; I was excited to apply and see what would come next. Over time, the dream vanished, another rejection, starting from scratch and waiting for another vacancy. My job was becoming repetitive and stressful; the payment check was insu...

Usually, we use to link some behavioural and emotional traits to different people we know. It is easy and sometimes simple to describe a person in one word, i.e. I'm with my funniest friend, or I will gather with my grumpy boss. We associate their most remarkable trait, and our mind quickly links it to the person. It makes me wonder how many people consider me serious, old-fashioned, boring, funny, or angry. I bet the answers vary depending on each person and the circumstances where we met and for some people, it will be ambiguous to remember me. The manner in which we associate the traits with the person will influence the way we act with them. Despite being conscious that humans are a bunch of emotions and that circumstances can affect the way we behave, I can summarize the main traits and characteristics of almost all my family, friends, and acquitances. The way in how the external world perceives us, or someone remembers us is the result of having shared experiences. Sometimes ...

It is a popular thought that someone has to be riskier when deciding to tell about their background, not only in the professional field but in academic, sentimental and daily life. To enhance and embellish reality is habitual in our lives. I don't know anyone who hasn't decorated their history for some time. When I was young, I was an expert in making up my experiences and embellishing them with both fantasies and realities; people seemed more interested. But that changed once I went to college, where I focused more on my technical background and put aside my soft skills. I thought that If I raised my academic skills, I would have more opportunities to find better chances to improve my life, including my job. Partly, it is true, but in this society, cheating and contacts more than the academic background can be determinant to achieve. Once I reached my college degree, I was ready to focus on my professional career, but the job market was oversaturated. For a 23-year-old who jus...

One of the disadvantages of living in a city near the country's border can be the expense and scarcity of some products, especially the first necessity stuff. Compared with other cities, this town has the country's most costly cost of living. Added to the lack of industry and production, the main food markets and local stores must import most of their products to compensate for the absence of stock. This increases the cost of food, not to mention the cost of some living as many services and products.  Lately, scarcity has struggled with poultry and dairy products, increasing the cost and demand for some daily products. Consequently, many farmers, food producers and intermediaries have been speculating on their prices, reaching new prices almost weekly. This has a significant impact on the local economy, which has seen an increased cost of living in the last few years; added to the lack of jobs, the absence of regulator organisms, delinquency and mendicity generate the disorder ...

This month, I've been completing various projects, including designing and coding my digital portfolio. As I mentioned earlier, having a digital portfolio will enable me to showcase my skills in a more visual manner while also making and including some of my latest jobs. In today's world, a portfolio is a great way to showcase oneself. Gone are the days when a CV or a resume was sufficient. Nowadays, recruiters, companies, and even regular people prefer to see creativity displayed on a webpage. Therefore, a portfolio is an excellent way to introduce oneself to the world. While developing my portfolio, I made numerous mistakes and faced many trials and errors. The challenging part was taking my ideas and turning them into functional code for the screen. While creating, some ideas disappeared while others came to me spontaneously. I drew inspiration from various portfolios, tutorials, and with the invaluable assistance of ChatGPT, I was able to streamline my code and resolve comm...