The short story of a 8 month assistant programmer.
Tags: Web Development, Job Hunting, PHP, Laravel, Programming

I will tell about my current situation with how I got to this situation.

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The end of September of last year is when I entered a programming school. I had absolute no IT background as I was only a service staff. I studied Microsoft Office Specialist expert and got the qualification in excel and word during the service staff period, but that was more than 7 years ago, and as I have never used the skills, I forgot most of the functioning stuff.

programming school

The programming course lasted only 3 months. There, what I learnt was HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Sass, PHP, wordpress, GitHub, MySQL, which are mainly for front-end programming. I soon started job hunting after graduation, and luckily I got an assistant programmer position at web creating company. Although they are a tiny company with around 50 employees, they have their own service of SNS present campaigns which is held only by a couple of companies in my country now. The boss was wondering if he was going to hire me because I was complete a beginner in this industry. So instead hiring me at a full commitment worker, he decided to contracted with me only 3 months, and gave me a programming assignment to see how I can progress. Unfortunately, my knowledge in IT is too poor before talking about programming skills, but my other skills like carrying out tasks with full of responsibilities and subtleties are highly approved by other colleagues, so he wanted to extend my contract and set up a new position for me, although not as a programmer, that’s what he judged me. He added saying that he wants me to be a programmer in the end, so study outside work. Although I wondered if I was going to change a job as soon as possible and not count this company as one of my working experiences, but I decided to stay as there was no other attractive companies to go, and was hoping to improve my skills quickly, and change the position soon.

I’ve been feeling the time passes so slow since my position changed. They were exactly the same 3 months passed as an assistant programmer(learning every single day at work), and as a tester/management staff(mostly making service manuals, specifications, and data collection on spreadsheets). I have no overtime work at all now, and job is quite easy, but I feel bored most of the time, and feel like I am in comfort zone being lazy. Besides, two new programmers joined our company, and I do not feel like I may have a chance to change my position. Instead, I have more and more administrative tasks asked, and feel like I will never be able to code in this company.

The image of my current situation

During the later period, I studied myself, and have been creating a site, but how I felt exactly shows how much I enjoy at work. This is when I started considering about job hunting.

Job hunting

I will have a meeting with my boss regarding my contract in a few months, so I am planning to ask him for changing my position to development, if not, I would leave this company. For that matter, I started job hunting this month. I want to post my blog regularly at least fortnightly, but because of my job hunting and etc, I may decrease the posting frequency as it is tough to make concentrated time for this. I will keep posting my blog as possible though. Wish me luck for a better job! Cheers!