So where were we... oh yeah! I was looking for work.
I completed my freelance work for the 3 months that I was away and promised to myself that I would hit the ground running. And boy, did I!
Spending the first two weeks after returning just thinking about why the hell I was so eager to return to my debts, I sought to take a long break from stressing about my built up debts due to not paying them off during my trip and decided to relax a little by job hunting. Freelancing, doing odd jobs, going back to hospitality, doing someone's programming homework(found out after I accepted the job) and scoring well over 40 rejection emails for work. My self-esteem had never felt so good.
That was when things got interesting. During my time looking for employers to decline my offers, I continued learning a thing or two in the software engineering world. I realised that as much as I fucking hated it, I still needed to learn web development and that I was slowly, but surely arming myself with a broad range of skills that would pay off massively. I'll get to that a little later, story time first. I spoke to my friend who's a web developer and asked him for some help by checking out my resume and online portfolio. After he informed me that my design skills were horseshit, he complimented my website's mechanics.
It's nice to know that I got something right. He advised me to seek out a recruiter as it's like a hoard of zombies from WWZ whenever an opportunity opens up on Seek, Freelancer, Upwork and the like. Which fucking sucks, because who doesn't want to work for 3 weeks straight and then take a vacation by learning about something you actually give a shit about for 4 weeks before realising that you really haven't sunk in as much time as you'd have liked during that time to yourself?
So, I sign up for recruitment with a company in the hopes of getting a call about what to look for. Nothing. Then another company sees that I'm looking for work on LinkedIn(yes, I hate it too) and informed me that they were impressed by my skill set.
If you'd like to know, I developed games, did an ML job, worked on accessibility shader options for those with colour weaknesses and some other stuff that I should probably list at some point.
Now they'd like to know if I was willing to move to another state for a six figure sum. Now I've always thought that I was someone who has worked in the industry for long enough to shoot for a six figure sum(2 years full-time), but was willing to accept a job for way less than what was offered, but in this case I was very happy with the offer and wanted to pursue this further. And therein begins an entire saga that didn't exactly waste 4 weeks of my life, but it certainly pissed me off enough that I was really disappointed in the shit that a high end company could put an individual through and not know how to conclude such an insanely overdone interview processs.
Stay tuned for this, because it's some absurd shit that I hope no one will go through and I hope that everyone will take what I went through with this bizarre nonsense seriously.