Gotta new job!
It’s weird. They really wanted me. And I mean wanted me in a WTF kinda way. First of all, their main framework is VueJS, which I’m not overly skilled at by any stretch. And I told them this… twice! I said out of the major Javascript frameworks out there, Angular is my strong point, followed by React, then Vue. I had some exposure to Vue on a few projects and I took a Udemy course in it, but I told them I wouldn’t consider myself a senior at it. Furthermore, I told them I have no experience in Vuetify, which they also use (although that’s changed in the last couple of days). I also bombed on a couple of newbie questions. They asked me to define “polymorphism” and “encapsulation”, two object orientation terms which I should know but have barely used and so my memory on what they mean exactly is a little rusty. I took a stab at them, looked them up on google later, and found I got it wrong!
Then my recruiter calls me up and says they want to give me an offer. I tell them I wish to respectfully decline because I’m working on a practicum for Boardwalk, which I feel really confident about. Boardwalk is offering $85/hour whereas Bode (the company I now work for) is offering $70, so while I could take the offer, I feel good about my chances with Boardwalk. Then she calls me back and says Bode will match the offer of $85/hour! I’m like whaaaat?!
So I took it! (I actually couldn’t put down the practicum; I continued working on it nonetheless, for at least a few hours. You can see it here in fact: 35.232.230.0:81 ; remember, I abandoned it part way through so not all functionality is there).
So yeah, they reeeally wanted me for some odd reason. Oh well, not gonna complain.
So I really don’t want to fuck this up. I’m on my meds, but there’s a snag. After about day 4 on my meds earlier this month, I grew tolerant. So I went off them. I talked to my doctor about it and he said he’d put in a referral to a psychiatrist for me, the purpose of which will be to talk about additional meds. The idea is to go on the dextroamphetamine for 2 or 3 days, then switch to a different med for 2 or 3 days. (I’ll probably do 3 days of dextro, 2 days of whatever else they give me, then take the weekend off). That gives my brain time to get over any tolerance either drug may have.
(At this point, I’m wondering why I don’t just go on caffeine for the latter two days.)
What I DON’T want to do is up the dosage. And I really don’t get why this is ever recommended at all. Any doctor who recommends upping the dosage went to some pretty shady med school. All that would do is make you tolerant to the new dosage, and then the dosage after that, then the dosage after that, and you would end up in a vicious cycle from which the fall into withdrawal would be excruciating. And I know from my experiences with caffeine, you can max out tolerance. I’ve grown so tolerant to caffeine that I could drink 50 cups of coffee and not feel anything. So no thank you. Gonna try alternating drugs.
so for now, I’m on dextro with breaks in between. If I can align those breaks with the Christmas holidays and New Years, I should be OK until I get my second prescription. Don’t wanna chance allowing my ADD/SCT getting through and screwing up my work. So I feel my chances with this new job are good.