Job Search Equals Endless Webdev
As much as I love designing websites for myself, I'm getting real tired of this.
After 3 months of building this site, having to immediately build another is a real drag, not gonna lie.
Honestly I’m not sure what my plan was because I was never going to be able to use this site to advertise myself to the wider job market. I was always destined to make a more anodyne “marketable” professional site 🤮
No regrets though!!
More Astro…Yay?
The new site is made with AstroJS again, and originally only took 5 days to make and deploy. It was nice and simple…but then I started watching some Dev Portfolio Site roasts 😬 and suddenly I didn’t feel so confident about the quality of mine :(
I had a night of freakout where I kind of stressed myself about meeting par but I fortunately calmed down and dug myself out of that YouTube-inspired doom mentality and took stock of what I could actually do to reasonably improve my site:
- Moving content off of page links and all onto the front page
- Smooth scroll
- Dark/Light Mode
- 508 Accessibility
- Adding a work experience/education section
- Updating resume to match industry standards
- Taking my fursona off of the site (it really wasn’t as subtle as I thought)
An end in sight…! Maybe!
Fortunately I think I’m getting fully burnt out on “for fun” website design, so with these changes I think I’ll be satisfied with where I’m at.
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And then comes the actual job search lmao.
It won’t be bad since I’m not urgently searching, and I have ~8 years of experience now. But even still it makes finishing these cool website projects feel a bit bittersweet.
Anyways. I can’t share the full site, but here’s more-or-less what I’ve got going. You can definitely tell it’s made by me!
Slightly-doctored screenshot of my WIP professional site
“No Fursona” doesn’t exclude my Protogen!
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