So I’m resetting the day counter, I’ve decided, because I finally feel like I can plant roots in San Diego.
I got the job offer yesterday and signed and returned it and accepted it. I got the salary I asked for. I am feeling very grateful.
Being unemployed is very hard. I was thinking about the parallel between that situation and the meme of men being babies when they are sick. When something fundamental is messed up in my life, I sorta feel useless, and it’s upsetting (similar to being sick). Anyway, I did a lot of things to offset that feeling but at the end of the day I didn’t know if I was going to be able to stay in San Diego. Since I’m fairly comfortable sleeping in my car I guess I could have done that regardless, but failing to get hired since applying in May had me feeling very defeated. It’s not like I was going to give up on job searching but it was both a financial nightmare and just sucked in general.
I start in 3 weeks and am looking for a place to stay with roommate(s) in the Clairemont / Kearny Mesa area of San Diego.
I have been working on a personal project in my gratuitous free time lately, using NodeJS, Fastify, and the latest version of Angular. Since this job will be using React for its frontend I am going to rewrite the project in react to sharpen up. I’m honestly not that great at React but it’s way easier than Angular so I think that 3 weeks and one project really is enough for me to get better situated.