In little pieces

Well, here I am, half way through the career week and feeling a bit of cultural confusion. At least,  I think that’s what it is!

The career week itself is very interesting. There are lots of talks about what we can potentially do next, and sessions pushing us to improve our CVs, our LinkedIn pages, Github profiles, portfolios, interview skills - it’s great, and undoubtedly useful. But - why do it right now? When the exam is next week?

I feel quite perplexed by the whole situation. The Le Wagon point of view seems to be that we are done, we ‘have passed’, we have a Le Wagon certificate and now we should look for work. Sure, next week there’s the ‘certification’, but that’s just a government requirement, it’s not such a big deal. 

For an uber-swot, exam-focused person, this is quite perplexing. I’m trying to study at the same time as fannying about creating ‘goal setting’ pages, and deciding whether I should have a picture on my CV (oh, France … )

No one else seems to be worrying about next week. Maybe it’s just me? 

But it’s not nothing, this exam! It’s two full days, from 9am to 6pm each day. I’m going to be knackered! And what if I can’t do it? It’s not like memorising facts: if my code won’t run, I’m stuffed!

So - deep breaths. All I can do is study what I can and practise and hope for the best.

Eventually I plan to write about what the whole experience has been like. I knew it would be ‘intense’ but I didn’t really think what that would mean. I feel like I’ve been through a machine that broke all my atoms apart and they’re still trying to come together again. I’ll let you know what the new me is like once the various parts settle!