Just finished up a temporary job I got hired for last week. I was working running a forklift in a freezer for a company called GA foods. Wow was it a lot of work; I worked 70+ hours a week, with one week even going over 80 hours. It was difficult and it left me no time at all to study. 14 hour days are difficult to do anything but come home eat and sleep, and even then only getting 5 hours of sleep.
But I did it, a couple months of that gave me a solid income to be able to put all of my effort into programming and striving fro my dream job.
For the next couple months I'll be able to commit most of my time to practicing my code and achieving my goals, and it makes me so excited to be able to do that. I've written out a calendar and a daily schedule to keep on track with everything and log all my hours. It's always been one of my goals to be more organized in my life. I've been trying to keep up on a bullet journal for a while now but it always seems that other things tend to get in the way. I've found organization is key for me being able to accomplish all of the things I want out of life.
As far as the programming goes it feels good. I'm working through a few Udemy courses on Node.js and then I'll be moving to React and Redux. I've been listing to a lot of podcasts about programming as well. They really helped to keep me motivated on those long work days in the freezer. If anyone wants to check them out I suggest programming throwdown, I just loved those two guys banter and the way they talk about things in general. I also really enjoyed CodeNewbie. She does a really good job of keeping things relatable to the newcomer looking for help and guidance, as well as asking good questions of the guests to help me further on my path and stay motivated.
Well that's it for today. Officially on the #100DaysOfCode challenge. Good luck to everyone out there trying to make their dreams come true. Don't ever give up on your goals.
