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Introduction: Where I'm at and where I'd like to go. Part II: What I've tried so far.

 When I was fired, I was honestly scared shitless. The last time I had been let go from a job I was still single and had 6 months of expenses saved up. Now I was married, had a mortgage, and had maybe 6 weeks of expenses saved up. I signed up for Uber and Lyft, and started applying to all manner of jobs. I got three call backs right away, and two more companies responded by asking me to take online assessments. Only one of these turned into an interview with the hiring manager. It was a video interview for a job in another state (that I wanted to move to). One of the worst interviews I ever had. I don't know if it was me, or if they had already decided who they wanted to hire, but here was zero energy in our conversation. Unsurprisingly, I got the rejection email the next morning. Figuring it might come in handy, I took this opportunity to get a tech certification. I studied for a week and then passed an AWS exam. My original intent was to then try to get more of them, but that pla...
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Introduction: Where I'm at in this journey, and where I'd like to go. Part I: My Background

I guess since this is a blog post, and not me reaching out via social media, I can be as long and verbose as I need to be (but no more than). For most of my adult life I've felt lost, professionally I mean. A small list of things I'm good at, and a reasonable (by my measurement at least) level of intelligence, but no idea how to channel that into a good career. When I started college my hope was to go into public policy or work for the federal government on some level, an idea that I find completely repulsive now.  I have no real love or passion for math, or hard science, outside of high level concepts and understanding the value of certain things. I understand math, and use it regularly for personal finance, or for critiquing things, looking at evidence for certain arguments or positions. But I'm not real into combing through obscure numbers or spreadsheets, or anything like that. I barely passed my required IT class in college, and my subsequent attempts at learning to co...
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