New-day structure

I hate applying for jobs. So far, 19 applied, 5 rejections. 

2 of them were jobs I wrote extensive cover letters for and was at least somewhat excited about, so screw both of them. 

I spent forever describing to Daktronics about how I was equally interested in computer hardware, software, and graphics, as well as what I was doing to self-learn electronics and low-level programming, only to get a generic rejection email. Seriously, I wanted to dive into the assembly! I was super excited about this company, but nope. Even better, I could've just been at DreamWorks until I retired, I loved that job, but no, I have to go through all this crap for the 500th time. I don't want to work anywhere else. I thought companies wanted longevity. 

Anyway, I'm sure I'm going to see 500 gajilion of these boring-ass, depressing auto-responses: 


Ugh. Gross. I hate the guessing game of figuring out what these companies want. 

Anyway, here's what I am going to do every day: 
  • Cybersecurity
  • Warm-ups: write a sentence, browse Inkblot 
  • Lifting
  • Running
  • GET READY FOR DAY, BREAKFAST
  • Artwork
  • Computer Science Review 
  • Computer Science Interview Prep: Cracking the Coding Interview, DSA, and Leetcode 
  • Computer Graphics Study (Including open-source graphics projects: Moonray, Krita, Blender)
  • Computer Graphics via Master's Thesis
  • LUNCH BREAK
  • Music: Clarinet, singing, piano
  • More thesis work
  • Game Development 
  • Industrial Controls: ECE, ME, Embedded, PLCs/Scada, Math/Physics
  • AFTERNOON BREAK (3:00 WALK)
  • Computer Science: Work on website, ideas for freelancing, and our sequence of CERTS and PERSONAL PROJECTS. This also includes special topics that I think I can get through quickly, such as QA and a quick review of Excel. 
  • Writing: Include Reading, Language Study
  • Apply for jobs: I hate doing this, so I only will do it after writing a bunch of code for the day. This will motivate me to get through it. Throw on some music and grind it out. 
  • DINNER BREAK
  • CLEANING / TAKE OUT TRASH
  • Gaming and Game Development 
  • Evening IT: Ethical hacking (TCM/Graham/Dhole), mainframe certification, homelab projects and/or PC Building Simulator
  • Theme Park Design
  • FINAL BREAK
    • internet, read, fanfiction, take walks or go swimming
  • PT / watch shows / evening meditation. 
I said I was going to keep playing the DreamWorks Animation TD games until I lost access to my accounts in mid-December but I just can't find the strength to log into them and see everything I'm missing. 

I'm also stressing quite a bit as I really don't have that much saved up. 

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