As fortunately I could change my job and the field I'm suppose to work was decided , I try to write about my experience which is , at least in Japan , fashionable.
I'm sorry that it will be very long.
The beginning
Although I went to graduate school where I majored mathematics , namely Number Theory , Modular form, as I fount it is difficult to make a living in mathematical field , I was trying to get job excepting researchers of mathematics.
But I graduated from the graduate school not getting any job.
After many twists and turns , I had been worked as a technical support operator in one of the leading companies for four years.
In other word , I worked in customer support center where I dealt with the inquiry users asked us.
If not mathematics , I wanted to make my way to get academic post of the other field.
But at that time I didn't have enough money and wasn't capable going to graduate school.
So at first I aimed to get engineer's job as a regular employee.
Fortunately and unfortunately the office I had been working for was so comfortable that four years had past.
Having a sense of crisis , I had began job hunting.
I had started job hunting
The first time, later 2016 , the second time , earlier 2018 , I had been doing job hunting.
When 2016 I used agent for job hunting.
There was two reasons why this time I stopped job hunting.
One is that I had lost all of screening the companies at that time I had applied held although I don't remember how many companies I had applied.
Another is that the agent who took charge of me promote my job hunting so fast that I had got a little tired.
Then after a little break , sense of crisis that I had to do job hunting welling up inside me , I had decided to begin job hunting again in earlier 2018.
This time I learned to write resume better than 2016.(But compared with today , it didn't satisfy me.)
But I lost all again.
Policy Change
At that time I had been learning programing and so on by myself , It seemed weak to appeal.
And it seemed that it didn't tell personnel staff how serious I want to get a job as an engineer.
As a result , that I had tried to think about what to do to tell personnel staff how serious I was made me came up with that going to school to learn programing.
Although knowing its exist as I often saw such a advertisement , trying to search eagerly , I found there are a lot of such a school.
My finance wasn't good at that time.
But I thought doing nothing occur nothing and if fail, I guessed the fact I had made action might also be appeal.
Deciding to take some break , at first I shifted my policy to go programing school.
Attending the briefing session and taking a screening , finally I got permission from four school and had decided to enter one of them.
Because of curriculum of the school , it was so difficult to continue the job that when I suggested "why don't you continue to work?" I told my boss that I quitted the job.
I had so many paid vacation that use up all my one for one month , July 2018, at the same time I had begun to go the programing school.
The course I went to was the one to aim to be AI engineer or data science engineer which had supports to be it.
It was July 2018.
Going Programing School.
In the school I had some peer and we did team development.
Learning with our teacher and peer made me realize not only the main contents but also common knowledge , the way to thinking as an engineer , and what is my appeal point and what is my peer's appeal point.
Especially , at that time I had no experiment I could be proud of because I had worked only customer support.
And I , who had been loosing many screening , had thought myself not capable and been pessimistic.
Knowing that I can do easily what others suffering from doing made realize I had something I'm proud of and got confidence.
But the environment was good , as I started to go school without enough plan in budget , I could not help leaving the school.
I went back to square one.
Above all , I didn't have money so much that first I decided to work as whatever jobs.
As I had an experience and skill of technical support , I had came to work as the one , though where I had to commute was different from the former.
This was about from November to December ,2018.
Turning Point1
Although I was so busy that I have to stop job hunting, this time I carried on having emotion that I wanted to restart job hunting.
The other hand , though I daren't to talk about its detail , as other many happening made me worn out.
By the way , when I got accustom to the job I decided to work for again,
I got a contact from acquaintance who was my peer at the programing school.
He told that I could get new job.
And he said that as the company his worked for recruited new data scientist , how about applying to it.
Although so was when I decided to go programing school , I think I got the way to think that when a chance come I try taking concrete action without carefully thinking.
I applied to my acquaintance's offer.
Although I could get to the interview , I've lost the screening.
But this time, as I applied through the employee ,who was my acquaintance , not in general , the interviewer wasn't formal and gave some frank opinion.
As a result I've lost the screening, I thought I could make my way a little because I could understand what levels I was in.
Turning Point2
In the customer center I began to work again , I didn't have much relationship with my peer.
Because , I thought that as I didn't intend to work long term here I wasn't necessary to build deep relation ship with peer.
Although above all I'm not good at building intimate relationship, I had a distance from other than before.
But as my generation was intimate in general , they tried to have good relationship and we got friendly.
One day we went to eat "Monja".
Frankly saying I'm not good at such dishes like I need to cook by myself.
Although I hesitated over whether I should go or not , I decided to go.
I'm not good at cooking "Okonomiyaki", beside I did't understand even how to cook "Monja".
When I was asked to cook "Monja" , although I hesitated over whether I should take charge of it or not, I decided to try to cook "Monja"
Although I was not sure how to cook "Monja", even if I failed to do it , it wouldn't kill me.
If so, I thought I tried to do it.
And I , who didn't understand how to , put the ingredient of "Monja" into the iron plate at once.
Then I was laughed at by the younger girl, who also took part in there.
But strangely I wasn't embarrassed.
Although I apt not to have common sense, regretting doesn't make me progress.
I had came to think that it was good that I got what I hadn't known.
Although I wrote "I was laughed at by the younger", I think it was not "she gave me a smile" but "I was laughed at by her".
But as she was charming , any response of her made me happy.
It caused me strangely to assemble the structure that
"I was laughed at "
= "I'm doing what is not common in public"
= "I'm just ignorant or I'm doing something".
And I was getting comfortable to be laughed at.
If it was not "they give me smiles" but "I was laughed at by them" , so is it.
And the motto "Enjoy failing" was generate in myself.
I resumed job hunting
I had met the acquaintance , who I told above, the peer in the programing school, again, and I report the interview I had tried the other day.
We also talked about that unexpectedly we could find recruitment if it was OK for me to be temporary staff.
It caused me to register lots and lots web-site for job hunting and apply lots and lots company , following the sprits "Enjoy failing"
We can see web-site for job hunting so much and it was so difficult to complete my resume that I wrote and improve my resume slowly everyday.
Furthermore I applied to the company I was interested in even a little, "automatically" and "making it a rule that I had to apply two or three companies a day."
I think I applied to 40 ~ 50 companies until I got promise of employment in the end.
I was crushed my expectation.
I could through the screening of one of these companies, where I was scheduled to do final interview.
As It seemed that I could gave good impression in the screening of resume, I was let to do second interview in the same day.
But when the schedule I had to do was only final interview with the president of the company, they assigned me coding task not written in flow of screening steps as advance notice.
I didn't set deadline.
Although I did the assignment in about one week , I could't finish doing it.
I postponed the deadline.
Finally I couldn't complete it , as I hesitated over whether it was O.K. I let them wait, I decided to submit it.
But I had lost screening.
As I could though first and second interview smoothly and what I was scheduled was only final interview, I was disappointed.
But I was told that they permit I posses the copyright and if it was necessary when I applied to other company I could use it.
So I decided to use it without any hesitation.
Promise of employment
Continuously I had been applying many companies making a norma that I had to apply two or three companies.
Although I often lost the screening of resume, I could also get to the interview.
At that time , I lived a life that I went to do interview on my holiday (it was weekday in public) working for customer center 5days in a week.
If I call on 1 company, it costs me expense to move and takes me several hours including the time to move.
So at that time , if I was asked to come to the company to do interview, I think , I asked them to loose me in the step of screening of resume if they have little expectation to through interview.
While living a such life , surprisingly I got promise of employment at the end of April !!
Then I stop applying newly.
I decided to finish job hunting after I confirmed the result I was waiting at that time.
More surprisingly I got another promise.
Although I'm not sure now ,it might have been effective to tell that I had already had a promise.
Is the trump card that we tell "I already have some promise of employ" strong?
Although the salary of the first company was better than second, considering my career , atmosphere and so on, I decided to enter the second company.
Persuasion
It was happy for me that I was also persuaded by the first company.
They told me that they hadn't been able to tell me how attractive their company , could I set the interview to talk about the matter again.
Under the condition that I didn't set any premise to change my intention , I met them again.
This time it wasn't official interview , we could talk frankly so much.
Their atmosphere wasn't bad.
But the second interview made me more sure that another company seemed to be suitable for me, I decided to decline to enter the company.
Training
Although I guess the training of any company is same, the training was the style that we answer the question given as training.
I learned about Java.
The personnel staff and teacher , who know how skillful I am checking my resume , portfolio , told me that finish all task in half a term other trainee was given.
Partly because I couldn't remove some bugs , partly because it was unexpectedly bulky , in the meantime I finished the task almost the same time.
But as I had richer knowledge than my peer , I often taught to them.
The other hand I was so skill that the company seemed not to delivery for boring site.
Because it seemed that they considered where to deliver me.
Finally finishing the training , the site I was suppose to work was decided.
Taking up my first post
I took up the first post where I was suppose to use Java and Spring boot.
I could take charge of from the step of detail design.
As I have been doing programing by myself and decide the name of variable as I like, I'm struggling to make specification for screen by excel.
Reflection
If I try to reflect on these process, I think I was important to make rich my resume or portfolio so as to change jobs from beginner.
In my case I referred to the resume and document of work experience the acquaintance , who was my peer and I told about above, made
Referring them , I found them so rich I learned how to write.
The result I described on web-site for job hunting or document of work experience was :
- URL of github (I made its repositories tidy)
- The assignment given by the company I told in my sentense.
- This Blog (I also write this blog in Japanese and they are more rich)
and so on.
Moreover , although I magnified document of work experience a little , I described everything that even if I had use them a little.
It is important to speak keyword in a interview , to be sure , because the words they use show us how skillful they are, but if showing the code they write we can judge their skill more precisely.
Furthermore , although I'm afraid of that if may be a little lengthly, that fact that I could make the motto "Enjoy failing" is a critical factor.
Whether I told myself the phrase in imperative form or in active form depends on my feeling.
But I think that it seems that when I face what I hesitate , repeating this phrase in my mind had me get courage.
Tracing the process I reach there , the original cause was the event I went to eat "Monja" with my peer at that time.
It might be just a "Monja".
But such a critical event might be concealed in routine life unexpectedly.
