A year minus ~10 days ago today, I received my acceptance email from Hackbright Academy, marking the start of a journey that would quite literally change my life. Just a week ago, I accepted an offer from MakerSights, where I had been working as a software engineering intern for the past three months, to be a full-time junior software engineer.
Both occasions fell on the week of National Sangria Day, of which I had celebrated at Spark Social's bottomless sangria event. I couldn't feel luckier to have been granted this good fortune two years in a row, and I'd like to think that this will be a continuing trend, both for the good news and sangria drinking.
As I think of the coming year and what I've had to put on pause in 2017 because of the career-switching, job-applying, and interning, here's what I'd like to see the 2018-me achieve:
- Become a morning person. That is, be able to wake up early enough to:
- Go for regular morning runs
- Finish my React Node web app
- Finish my Warriors data visualization app
- Cook Julia Child's Beouf Bourginon
- Travel to Portland
- Travel to Austin (during ACL)
- Make a 1-s everyday video
- Dye my hair
- Attend a comedy show
- Learn Spanish
- Cook a whole fish
So there you have it. Tangible goals, here we go!
