A few days ago, we tore down the recreational computer system at our camp. This means I will no longer be able to communicate over any means but my email. It should be listed in my profile.
Today, our section started building our CV’s. It was on all our minds at the same time, and we just started doing it, and helping eachother out. We all have similar qualifications and our work experience can literally be copied and pasted between us. We each have our own style of putting one together, but all in all pretty powerful stuff. I never knew just how hard it was to quantify/explain my work experience and skill-sets on one sheet of paper. I guess that could be viewed as a good thing. Instead of saying I’m fresh out of college and used to flip burgers, I can put down military experience. It’s actually kind of like deja-vu. This is the exact thing I came into the Corps. for. Instead of begging a company to hire me part time and only learn one set of skills, I was practically GIVEN this job, where I’m now an I.T.-Jack-of-all-trades.
It’s a relief looking at job postings, whereas a few years ago job postings were like laundry lists of things I needed to learn. Now all of the same type job listings that I’m looking at make me look overqualified. But no rest for me, because I know that learning is a neverending process. And so many cool things to learn! So many programming languages I have yet to learn, so many server technologies, so many frameworks and api’s that I know nothing of! All opportunities for self-improvement.
I cannot stress this enough : I’m eager to get back to the civilian world.