I am so excited to be writing my first blog post. The website is no where near close to being finished but I wanted to write a blog post no matter what.

Today is the first day of 2021. Instead of focusing on the dumpster fire that was 2020 I am focusing on working on my development skills in 2021.

But before I can focus on what HAS to be a better year, I want to let you know about my biggest set back of 2020, losing my job.

I loved my job. My coworkers felt like a weird silly family and my work fulfilled me. It was the best job I had ever had and losing it hurt a lot. But losing it has pushed me to acknowledge that I was not focusing on my development skills. The developers used scala so I took a specialization in Java over the summer and then started a specialization in Scala. I never finished Scala, nor do I plan to. I am now working on Python. Why the jump? I could not find any junior scala jobs. Most scala developers have been working for many years in java or other object-oriented languagues before switching to scala. Python, in constract, has loads of junior jobs that I can find.

So now that I have no job, I am moving back home. It is not an easy move. I live in London, England. My mom lives in New York State. When I get back to New York, I will try to find a remote job as a IT business analyst or an automated tester while spending my free time programming. My goal is to become a python programmer and get a job in Milan, Italy by 2022 or 2023. This blog will document my journey towards my goal.

Now, before I finish up, no New Year's post is complete without stating this year's resolutions. I'm putting them here for accountability and once a month, I will check back in to see if I have gotten closer to accomplishing them.

New Year's Resolutions

• Get stronger
• Do a controlled handstand
• Do #100DaysOfCode
• Get this website up and running
• Get my Italian back to B2
• Get my Japanese to N5

Hopefully next time you see my blog, it will look a lot better than this :p

Till next time,
Cope