Never Applied for a Job Before — Part One

So I’m a Job Seeker Now

All right, so I’m finally applying for a job like everyone else.

All my life, I never had to apply for a job. I’ve only had maybe three: a summer job, the first thing I did after school that was supposed to be temporary but lasted too long, and then working at the studio recording music and producing as a sound engineer. That’s been it.

I didn’t apply for any of those. The audio stuff just happened because I was good with computers, always been, and I was recording my friend who was taking it to the studio, but mine sounded better. The studio reached out, and that’s how I ended up with that job, in a nutshell. I was like okay, this is not bad, I like creating, and I’ve been doing that for quite a few years.

The Coding Thing Was Always There

Obviously, being good with computers, I’ve always dabbled in coding and that kind of stuff, on and off. Keeping at it for a while, losing track for a few years, then jumping back in to see what people are doing.

At this point I’m fully back, coding’s my main thing again, and I’m at a point where I want a job. I need the extra money, and I have a bunch of things in me that I know I can help Guyana with, you know?

First Time for Everything

So here I am. I just created my CV and I’m sending it out to different companies that I’m interested in first, right? First time for me, not something I’ve done before, and it’s kind of exciting to see if anyone will reply. Maybe they won’t.

I have places I can show up at and use my name or other people’s names or use friends and family to get a job at different places, but I’m not starting there. I want to see what this is like, you know? The apply-and-see-if-someone-replies thing, see where that goes first. I want this experience.

So I’m going through it. I won’t be on this for very long. I’ll give it some time, and if nothing happens I’ll call it a failure and move on, then use my in-Guyana connections to get a job somewhere. That’s not my first play, all right?

No Paper, But Here’s What I Got

I have a bunch of skills, a lot of knowledge, but no degrees or certificates to prove it. What I have to prove these things is stuff I’ve already done, and if I get an interview they can ask me anything. As long as it’s in my field, if I don’t know it I guarantee I can know it in half an hour, an hour. Give me a weekend.

Like, okay, I hate Java. Hate it. No disrespect to people who love Java, you know how programmers go. Sometimes your brain just doesn’t like a type of language. Anyhow, I hate Java. But a while ago I picked up C# and was doing it, and someone said hey, this is just like Java, and it was nice. So I’m pretty sure I could get into Java if I had to, I don’t know.

Anyhow, if I get a job and they want me to learn Java, give me a weekend and I’ll know the basics and how to get started. I have the other languages in my head, I know the basic syntax for programming. I might not know Java’s specifically, but I know the idea of a for loop, a variable, functions, parameters, classes. So the language doesn’t matter. Whatever someone asks me in an interview, I can work my way around, or I’ll be honest if I don’t know it. I’ll say okay, I don’t know this, but here’s how I expect it to go. And I’m pretty sure they’ll understand that this guy is ready for something. Maybe not at their place. But he’s got something.

So We See

Anyhow, that’s what I’m doing. I’ll do a follow-up on whether it worked or not, even if it didn’t work. I’ll probably include a link at the bottom so you can jump there to see the update.

But I guess we can call this part one.

So let’s see how that goes.

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Written from Guyana, South America, where sometimes you just have to see what happens.