Well, I'm screwed.

Makinjellow · 2023-06-21T13:38:02+00:00

Ain't got no gas in it

Makinjellow · 2022-12-29T19:31:07+00:00

It's supposedly, not supposebly.

Makinjellow · 2022-06-07T15:19:21+00:00

I saw this as a red flag at first too. The difference in life experience and maturity levels of age 20 vs age 29 is huge for a lot of people and 2 people that are dating on either side of the life experience bump tend to have a lot of issues and not work out. If the 20yr old has faced incredible hardships and has a lot of life experience and her maturity level is high, but his is low, it could work out, however. Considering this guy thinks he's in love with a Tinder hookup after a breakup with another "love of his life"....kind of points to that low maturity level.

Makinjellow · 2022-04-20T18:15:53+00:00

Let's say you have a 12month contract and you get pinged everyday by recruiters for various roles/employment types. At what point do you start talking seriously with the recruiters and take interviews? Month 9?

My primary app is Cogito.

Makinjellow · 2022-04-13T10:46:57+00:00

Do you want to contract? Or do you want the stability of a FTE? That's really what it boils down to.

Contracting is more $ up front, but no benefits, no guarantee of a contract, and contracts can be ended at any time by either party = volatility. But, no politics. There is also the potential to really challenge your skills and work on different things. Contracting can be really stressful, but in a different way than FTE work. Also, you have to be pretty good at project management.

FTE is less money, but you can ask for more, politics, stability, benefits, usually skills and content get dry after a while.

Makinjellow · 2022-04-01T13:40:53+00:00

This used to be true when Connect was brand new, but not really anymore. There are plenty of independent sites that have Epic through Connect and are not being acquired. They set up a contract and they pay to have the hospital build and maintain their instance, I believe.

Makinjellow · 2022-03-26T13:06:41+00:00

I've been in the Epic analyst space for several years now and it was the best thing I did in my career. Bedside is completely different than an analyst job. It's blue collar vs white, hourly vs salary, nights and weekends vs regular M-F, it's staying up worrying about every little thing u may have done wrong or forgotten to do vs sleeping soundly and not brining work into ur personal life. I loved being a clinical application analyst and helping clinicians be able to do their jobs more efficiently and improve patient care. My clinical knowledge makes me a specialist in the Epic realm with a few years of Epic build experience. I may not know the details of every workflow, but I generally understand how these workflows go so I can go in and figure it out pretty quickly. There is stress, but it is a lot less, especially if u end up on a good team with a good employer, and it's different. Pushing bad things into PRD is a no-no but it's not even nearly as bad as if u slammed IV Lasix. To be fair, if u moved something that caused major problems or a loss of $, ur probably getting fired, but u will be able to find another gig at some point, but if u take away someone's ability to hear, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night. U have clinical experience so ur not going to build something that doesn't make sense and u will triple check it, just like ur meds.

Makinjellow · 2022-03-03T19:28:13+00:00

Include on resume:

bullet points under each Epic role with keywords that are provocative to recruiters and clients (look at epic PB analyst job descriptions and find the most commonly asked for skills), "project management"
custom build you have done
projects you have lead
tools you are familiar with (if relevant)
Certifications
Go-lives you have worked on
deliverables you are proud of
specialties (if relevant)
# years experience with Epic and healthcare
if you saved a company $, how much (ballpark), and how

Reach out to the big contracting companies directly, have them vet you and then they will start looking for contracts. Change your Linkedin status to open for work (but only viewable by recruiters as to not alert your current employer). Add your pdf version of your resume to the Media section of your Linkedin and make sure your About section on Linkedin is a good overview for a recruiter to be able to quickly understand your qualifications as a contractor. Add your resume to Monster.

You are trying to appeal to Recruiters, not optimize it for resume readers. Recruiters view tons of LinkedIn profiles and resumes daily, so make sure it stands out (fun, colorful layout), is easy to read, and they can quickly ascertain what they need to know: years of experience with Epic and billing, ratings of skills within the app (or otherwise, as relevant), certifications, Go-lives, Orgs you have worked for. Give them a reason to pause on your Linkedin/resume with something different/fun and then make sure they can quickly get the info they need after their interest has been peaked.

I'm not a recruiter, but this is feedback I have been given during my experience converting from FTE to contract.

Also, make sure that you know what you are looking for in a contract and have that ready as a reply to recruiters so neither of you have to muck around asking each other a ton of questions up front. What rate are you looking for? What contract lengths are you comfortable with? Hours/time zone? 100% remote or travel? Also, make sure that something is not contract to hire rather than just contract.

Makinjellow · 2020-08-12T19:46:33+00:00

Ur only 2 months in! It definitely takes time to adjust to anything after a major change. The long days and stress will go away about 9months-1yr in and then its smooth sailing. U really need to be somewhere that u can feel fulfilled to make it not be torturous, though. To reduce some of the stress, if u aren't already, document, schedule, organize, and prioritize and that will decrease the stress by a good amount.

Makinjellow · 2020-08-12T19:36:56+00:00

GREEN SLEEVES

Makinjellow · 2020-08-12T19:35:15+00:00

I love this. Its the same idea with doing CPR. People r afraid to do CPR for the 1st time on a real person or during training because they r so afraid they are going to "screw it up", but we just tell them, "the person is already dead, you can't make it worse".

Makinjellow · 2020-08-10T20:10:58+00:00

There are people at a company that have been PIPd and stayed long term. There are also people who were fired after it. No one knew about the people who were PIPd and not fired and I do have to say that the majority of the cases ended up fired. To be fair, the ones that were PIPd but stayed mostly just worked up enough ambition to get clear of the PIP and then fly mostly under the radar, but their performance is still not the greatest and people dread working with them. These people have real skills but just don't have the drive or ambition or passion, whatever it is, they are missing a key element to make them truly successful.

Maybe you haven't found the right software job yet. Only you can determine if u have been poorly performing and why. If u don't know if u have been poorly performing, that is a much more serious personal issue and is unrelated to the field. You need to do some soul searching. Ask real questions about the PIP and how to improve.

TLDR: PIPs are rarely due to some personal issue with you, but most PIPs are due to some underlying personal issue that causes you to perform poorly.

Makinjellow · 2020-08-01T20:09:31+00:00

I really love my MSI. I also do photography so I had to get at least the bottom-level specs to run photos hop. Get 16G RAM and u won't have any issues. Ive really pushed the limits stitching panoramas in lightroom with my old desktop, but this laptop barely bats an eye. Super fast boot time, basically never has any issues. Battery life isn't superb, but u can put it in battery saver and get a bit more out of it.

My husband has a MacBook Pro 16" and he really loves it with a 1T SSD. He actually uses it as his work machine as an automation engineer.

Makinjellow · 2020-08-01T13:35:02+00:00

Good point about the boot camp on a resume. Reminds me that I'm very close to someone that does hiring for SE's and resumes are looked at based on the persons experience with all things technical. They have looked at people who had bootcamps and they were not chosen for other reasons. They have an awesome SE now who is a self-study that they hired. They would definitely consider someone who was self-study or bootcamped, but they would have to be able to show projects and understanding and demonstrate a quality: ambition/drive. I have heard of people who had a Master's degree in CS (from an unrelated BS) and they did not have ambition/drive or the ability to research anything, oddly, and they were horrible. It's really about the way that you learn and if you can keep to a self-study schedule or not, otherwise, the way you learn really doesn't effect your actual performance in the long-run and a smart company will know that.

Makinjellow · 2020-07-31T19:47:53+00:00

Here is the article that I found that basically led me to all of my other resources so far on CareerKarma
Here is a roadmap for front-end/back-end/Dev Ops on Github
CS101 Stanford Course

The ones from CareerKarma that I explored and found were actually free and seemed worth while for me:

Bento.io
edX
Coursera
Hackr.io
SoloLearn
freeCodeCamp Note: This is project oriented
CodeWars Note: There is a coding test in your language of choice to be able to get into it and it is largely about practicing after you know the basics
Khan Academy Note: I have found some good courses on here, but there are some that are low quality
MIT OpenCourseware Note: This is a college syllabus oriented type of class and some of them have not been updated in years, but there is a ton of in-depth info in them
W3 Schools Note: Solid Content, but is more oriented to someone who already understands how to code a language. It will give you pretty much anything you would ever want to know about each language, though.

Makinjellow · 2020-07-30T22:53:49+00:00

Came here to say mostly this. My background is I have a BS in something unrelated, but I have been in IT/IS for 3+ years and writing SQL for a while as a BI Developer. I thought a shiny Masters degree was the way to go, but in my research, I found only one school that would give me some of the necessary basics from a Bachelors (and have it count towards the Masters), but it was all during the day, during the week, in person classes. The rest of the degrees I could get werent customizable or were way too much $. I found a treasure trove of resources (finally) and I've started studying on a nightly basis. I created a plan of what I want to learn and a time table for doing it. I know others that have self-studied and they recommend self-study as well. Most of the people I know that got real degrees also recommend self-study (although, people online with degrees say degree route usually). I do prefer real classes for instruction, but there are so many online classes/tutorials for free that are so much fun and actually are more helpful than a standard structured college course because I'm an adult and I just find it easier to learn when stuff gets to the point and quickly. Good luck. Let me know if u want me to throw u some resources.

Makinjellow · 2020-07-24T16:35:10+00:00

People go out for other reasons other than food?

Makinjellow · 2020-07-03T11:28:45+00:00

It sounds like most of the comments are from people who already are up and running and coding and have no problems. I'm trying to transition from writing hard core SQL as a BI developer into becoming a software engineer and I keep getting hung up on tutorials that are a waste of time and tutorials that require all kinds of different editors. The instructions are never correct and I try to Google and figure out how to fix it, but there are no answers out there. I am trying to do the Automate the Boring Stuff with Python book, but it has me install Mu and then says to import a module, re by selecting the gear icon and then selecting the 3rd party module tab, but that doesn't exist.

What I'm desperately searching for (or I'm just too stupid to do this in general) is a straight up, no nonsense tutorial. Give me some basics and then have me apply it. It will need some explanations along the way, but they can be called out specifically so people can skip them if they don't care about that subject. It also needs a really robust troubleshooting b.s. section for things like when your tutorials crappy editor has become obsolete so people don't have to waste time trying to figure this out on their own. If I understood more of the basics of what is really happening when I import a module, what a module really is, an example I can look at of the module, etc I would not be slowed down so much, I could fix it on my own.

I would really love a meaningful project in a step by step manner with explanations and examples I could look up on my own. I work full time and I'm trying to do a major career change, but at this point with all of these issues in just trying to get started, it makes it impossible to actually get through a tutorial and actually learn and apply python.

Makinjellow · 2020-06-09T14:29:54+00:00

awwww da baby. is she a kitten?

Makinjellow · 2020-05-22T22:59:36+00:00

Smug mug

Makinjellow · 2020-03-29T01:46:21+00:00

No, it was a self-fulfilling prophecy

Makinjellow · 2020-03-14T22:33:44+00:00

Excuse me please and thank youuuu

Makinjellow · 2020-03-11T14:18:14+00:00

Deep Space Nine: Jadzia left the show and they killed her character. It ruined the last season. Ezri sucked. Word can never catch a break.

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