I completed the Setting Clear Goals & Objectives exercise for the 🧠 Mindset Of An Expert Developer course. I'm excited to share my goals with the community. I'm sharing my goals to create a space where we can declare what we want and work towards it together, just like @Dragos Nedelcu and @Bogdan Nedelcu are teaching us. Let's build a supportive and accountable community where we can all achieve our goals. My 90-day, 1-year, and 3-year goals: 90 days: Get a new job as a front-end engineer using Next.js and TypeScript working on an e-commerce product for a company in the United States, earning an offer of $100,000, working 4 days a week, and having a fully remote contract. I continued to travel the United States in my SUV and 19-foot travel trailer with my wife and 2 children. 1 year: Become a full-stack engineer overseeing projects from start to finish. I'll use Astro.js to manage the website/application infrastructure and Vue.js for the front end. I'll earn $150,000 annually, take on more leadership responsibilities at my current job, attend four major tech conferences (2 in the U.S., 1 in South America, and 1 in Europe), and travel internationally with my wife and two children, living a digital nomad lifestyle. 3 years: Become a Software Architect at a well-respected tech company in Europe or Oceania, earning $250,000 annually, expanding my skill set to include AI-assisted development, becoming a generalist who focuses on solving problems efficiently with many tools at my disposal, and mentoring developers. I want to live on a farm with my wife, 2 kids, cows, goats, pigs, dogs, cats, birds, vegetable garden, and orchard. I'm excited to see what the future holds for all of us! Share your own 90-day, 1-year, and 3-year goals in the comments below.

As part of my search this month for a cheap CMS solution, I built a little blog of javascript concepts that uses visual triggers, analogies, mnemonics, haikus, code examples and concept checking questions with a fun Japanese ninja theme that I hope will help with comprehension and recall. I'll be using the project as a way to improve my Nextjs and Tailwind if anyone wants to mentor or collaborate? Also, I've built a simple custom gpt if anyone has any JS requests they'd like to see added? https://learnjsconcepts.vercel.app/ Many thanks again to the SeniorDev team for inspiring this concept first project

As of 20 December 2023, I will be promoted to Senior Software Engineer at my organization! This is just the beginning of the journey for me, and I plan to continue to learn here to strengthen my contributions to both my organization and this group.

Just want to celebrate a small success. I had been struggling to get interviews for like the past year. I followed @Dragos Nedelcu advice on how to modify my LinkedIn and I also used the Resume template and tips he offered on his YouTube video and I have had recruiters reaching out on LinkedIn and after applying and sending my resume to some companies. I have two interviews scheduled for next week. Might not seem like a lot but after only hearing crickets, this is awesome. Thank you for this community @Dragos Nedelcu @Bogdan Nedelcu Excited to get even more interviews scheduled and hopefully land a job soon 🙏🏻 P.S. Work on that Resume!

Hi again! I wanted to update you on this process and share the good news: I passed the take-home challenge! After the challenge I had a technical interview where I got questions about a range of different topics, and two about my code. The first one was "why did i use storybook for?" and "why did i make the app in vue if my 'expertice' was react". After answering those, the topics i was asked about were all over the place but front-end related, such as: - Internationalization - Accesibility - CSS - Micro front end architecture - Design patterns - JavaScript - PWA - Tools i've used - SEO None of the questions were too deep but still filtered wether i knew what i was talking about or not. They got me on a lot of questions but every time i failed they explained what a good answer would have been. After their interview was over i asked them a few questions that i always do, as it serves two purposes: 1. i make them speak about themselves, and most people like that 2. It gives me an insight of how the company operates The questions i did this time were: - what is it that keeps you working here? - can you tell me about a time that you made a serious mistake, how did you fix it and how did the company react. (this one got people laughing at how they deleted a production database) - How do you feel about me with this interview? The answer to the last question was that i knew enough and that there was no reason not to learn on the job what i didn't know. And after a cople of days, I got the news that i passed the technical interview and now i had to do the cultural fit interview (which was yesterday). So yeah, i feel pretty awesome passing senior grade interviews with just months of experience in the front end. I still have a low chance of getting in (10% maybe) due to the high number of applicants they have, but let's hope for the best. Have a great day everyone! PS: if you want me to write about the cultural interview let me know.