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Musings of an Unemployed Customer Support Engineer

The Iron Yard

  • The Iron Yard – Post Mortem?

    After Demo Day was over, I had intended to rest.  The weekend was going to be for binge watching things and Monday was devoted to sleep. I lied.  Friday was spent retrieving my car and since I was awake and needed to send Uber a strongly worded email about my missing phone… I figured I’d Continue reading

  • A Love-Ish Letter To My Iron Yard Family

    A Love-Ish Letter To My Iron Yard Family

    Don’t take this as a final thing.  I wanted to express how grateful I’ve been to have this experience and to have met all of you.  You got my number?  You got my e-mail?  Are you reading this?  Good.  That means you can reach me and I’ll be there for you, in whatever capacity I Continue reading

  • Update

    Update

    Time flies when you’re ignoring your blog!  Amirite?! When last we spoke, I missed a friend passing away and I was tangling with The Iron Yard ceasing operations after my cohort. Fast forward… I made it to graduation!  Was there any doubt that I’d get to that point? There sure as hell was!  Maybe one Continue reading

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  • No Words… Wait. Some Words…

    Iron Yard coding school in Las Vegas closing Man, if I wasn’t stressed out enough already… Last week, I think I said that I’d like this week to not be so exciting. I’ve already been drunk twice this week. I’m taking a personal day.  Be back tomorrow. Continue reading

  • Lather, Rinse, Repeat… Wait…

    I initially started this blog to document my journey through the Iron Yard, but while I meant to talk about learning how to code, I’ve ended up focusing more on the mental aspect. I had a vague idea of what I was getting into.  My cousin is a programmer… he’d actually been through a similar Continue reading

  • Go Forth

    I’m taking a union break at the moment (Ha ha ha…)… It’s the Fourth of July, but I still have homework and projects and they won’t do themselves… Yesterday in class, one of my classmates sold me HARD on the ease and convenience of using Atom.  The past few times that we’ve had partner programming Continue reading