I have been radio silence for a few months from blogging, twittering and any form of social media and sadly it hasn't been good for me. Firstly I would like to say that everything is OK with my personal life although I've had hiccups recently but did manage to keep my chin up and proceeded through. The major issue I had was that I became too lazy, loss motivation and didn't want to sit at the computer at all to produce any work or projects. The project that I mentioned in my previous post didn't commence at all. I think what caused me to be less motivated is due to the fact that when I was studying at university I would be sat in front of the computer screen for hours working on various assignments and after a long while it really does get to you. I started to feel like that I was going to be sick, wanted to throw the computer tower out of the window and go do something more exciting like play Dark Souls 3 or play hockey. To put it short, I was burnt out with computers and decided to have some time off. Now after having some time to myself, enjoying myself and coming back from a lovely holiday in Varadero, Cuba. I feel like that I am now ready to be productive and get a nice portfolio going.
After spending countless amount of hours for just simply searching for a job in one field I have decided to expand my horizons and look for different opportunities. I consider myself to be somewhat decent at web development/design since I have a good knowledge with HTML, PHP and JavaScript so I thought I'd do some digging around with job searching in web dev/design and I am surprised on how much opportunities there out there for graduate/junior positions are turning up! Since I decided to chase up. Things has been going good but not good enough for my liking. I've had various interviews with big companies such as ASDA for a junior web designer but sadly I didn't succeed on securing the position even though I was 99.9% sure that I would have been hired! from the interview I actually had some really good feedback provided so I decided to keep them on file and implement them into my future projects!
Regarding on the previous project that I have mentioned, For a time-being I deiced that I am going to postpone on perusing on game development until I feel more confident with my skills in scripting, programming and polish my 3D Studio Max skills back up once I get a more powerful computer. I do have a project in mind as of now. Once I get the full green-light and all the materials that I need then I will write a separate post on what it will be!
Anyway, I wrote this post just to get me back in the mood, be more motivated and allow me to look back on what I have achieved and what issues that I have ran into. I would like to say thank you to my family, friends, loved one for providing me with support on helping me get back on my feet. I definitively needed this and I am ready to go!
Thank you for reading this post, I hope you have an excellent day and now I'll leave a surprisingly motivated video message from our crazy friend Shia (it helped me anyway!)
Cheers,
Alex
