Yesterday was the first meeting between myself, the university and my workplace, to assess how the apprenticeship is going and plan actions going forwards. I was quite anxious about it, for one because I hadn’t been documenting the study leave I’d taken as part of the apprenticeship and rushed to get it all down the evening Read More
Journaling
We’ve Done It Boys And Girls!
Did I post about my actual portfolio submission yet? No I did not! So here it is, a whole day late. Yesterday was the deadline for my first portfolio submission on my Data Science apprenticeship and I’m glad to say that I got everything submitted the night before, so I had the whole morning to panic Read More
My First Portfolio Submission
I’ve just finished the last piece for my portfolio submission, with the deadline being tomorrow noon. That may seem like I’ve left it quite late, and I have, but in my defense I had been fighting against an incredibly strong level of demotivation beforehand. I’d gotten myself to a point where I really wasn’t sure that Read More
Liability Reduction Celebration Cake
Today whilst watching episodes of the Sketch show on YouTube, I saw a sketch with cake in it, and I realised that amongst all the high fiving, hugging, kissing and general celebrating yesterday, I didn’t even plan to have a cake! To me, all proper celebrations have a cake. Part of the reason that we didn’t Read More
Happy Liability Reduction Day
It’s been a long time since I last wrote and honestly I’ve just been prioritising a lot of other things ahead of writing. But today is a very good day and a day to write about that, as with the pandemic and people staying home to keep themselves safe, a bit of good news is worth Read More
Coronavirus Update
Finally, after a couple of tense weeks when the writing was already on the wall, the UK government has advised the public to work from home if they can. It is such a relief, as it has been clear for at least a week that this should be happening. I live in London, the hardest hit Read More
Eating My Ego
Today I attended a tutorial with my probability and statistics tutor for the Data Science degree. It was around a half hour just me and him, which let me work on the really basic stuff that I don’t understand, and an hour with another student attending to work on the more complex stuff. I felt bad Read More
Learning To Relax
I’ve been thinking about how I take care of myself, which makes this article my wife shared with me quite timely! https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work Basically millenials, those of us in the 22 to 38 age range, are burning out. This is because we are trying to do everything just like our parents did. But the current economical and Read More
Preparing Myself For The Future
Something that I have always been comfortable and good at is learning new work skills. My Excel skills for example have only gotten better and better and been the backbone of my career for the last 5 years. With all of the different jobs I’ve undertaken that were heavily Excel focused, I’ve also developed great analytical Read More
There is no ‘proper’ way to read
Some time ago I wrote a post about Blinkist as being akin to speed dating for books. You get snapshots of what the book is about, edited for enjoyment quite likely, lasting but a fraction of what a traditional date would in comparison. One of the responses I got to that through Twitter was that it Read More