Makady Blog

 What I have going on right now: I'm bored during the vacation, and I don't know what to work on. What I had planned for the vacation was one of two things: Look for a job using my portfolio site Work at any startup or side project, like TaskLoop Applying for jobs in vacation I've tried applying to a couple of projects on freelancers.com, and for me, seeing the very, very small percentage and small probability of being accepted makes me feel like this is so fuckin boring and I can't do this. Also, I talked with Mohssen, and he told me that he applied to not less than 20 companies to get a job as a backend developer, and he couldn't find any. So that made me realize that I am willing to learn , launch , and work on small changes and projects and get feedback early, rather than applying for a ton of jobs, getting rejected, and not even getting noticed. Working on my side projects in vacation But here I faced the second problem: TaskLoop , as a project, can'...

During vacation, college students usually fall into a few categories. Doing Nothing Some do absolutely nothing—just binge-watch movies and series at home. Others go out a lot, hanging out with friends, gossiping, and playing games like cards or dominoes. Rarely do those convos get serious about the future or anything meaningful. Another version of “doing nothing” is going to the beach or parties—if you’ve got the money. It’s technically unproductive, but at least it’s fun. Working and Thinking About the Future Then there’s the second group: people who spend their vacation working for someone else in any kind of business, or those who focus on self-study. Let me be honest—self-study is boring as hell. And going out with the same people doing the same things also gets boring fast (unless it’s the beach or a party... then I’m down). I’ve already tried most of these things. I’ve done the gossip, the hanging out, the games. I’ve also done self-study. At one point, it was fun—especial...