Career Planning

Where I was, where I am now, where I will take my career, and what I learned to do so

Before coming to i.c.stars, I had a series of dreams, but not a single plan. It wasn’t I was trying to fly at the seat of my pants, I just had absolutely no idea where to get started. Of all the things i.c.stars taught me, that ability to dream and manifest that dream has to be my biggest takeaway. Now, on my out of i.c.stars, I plan to be seeing stars, the moon, and everything in between.

Short and long term plans

Short Term Plans (1 yr)

  • Buy a little bit of time with House Husbandry, helping my fiancé secure a safety net’s funds while taking care of the house, working on entrepreneurship along the way
  • Learn 3 new coding languages minimum, develop a calorie counting app as my first solely developed project, and practice working on a team with friends and cohort members in the real world
  • Attend at least 3 conferences, networking with individuals there, and increasing my network with at least 5 industry leaders
  • Establish Pseudo Services as either an LLC or Sole Proprietorship, Crafting my Brand and Establishing a Business Model and Plan

Long Term Plans (5 Yrs)

  • Develop Self-Hostables and Deliver to Market, Understanding the Required Logistics to do so, and establish a corner in the market
  • Maintained my own services with 99.9% uptime, Easing Installation and Implementation for others to follow, while learning alternative platforms such as Kubernetes and Podmnan
  • Acquired at least 1 contract with an industry leader, maintaining deadlines and following through on at least 99% of deliverables

Long term Plans (10 Yrs)

  • Develop Self-Growables and Deliver to Market, taking what I learned with Self-Hostables in logistics and diversifying skill sets and income
  • Keep Services Maintained at that 99% uptime, contributing to projects I myself use both financially and developmentally
  • Completed at least 1 contract, gaining at least 1 more to replace it, ideally 2

Long Term Plans (25 Yrs)

  • Grow Self-Hostables and Self-Growables to 1 Million sales, establishing it as a line of products that are the go-to starting point for those getting into self-preservation
  • Establish an “underground network” via Self-Hostables‘ available features, allowing connectivity similarly to Federation without the need to pay for DNS Services
  • Have a house custom built with everything tech related being 100% only available on the local net

My Brand and Values

I want people to think of Pseudo Services just as the name implies: Services that don’t actually exist. I want people to be able to have access to the tools I provide without needing a special team to assist in growing their setup.

Education will be key to establish this. Framework‘s implementation of this is brilliant: QR Code anything that needs educating to perform. Replacing a hard drive? QR Code. Repairing the screen? QR Code.

Utilizing Education, we can make technology more accessible to the average consumer. And once the average consumer is educated, they won’t see our tools as services to them. They’ll see them as their own.

Roles to Dawn the Cap of

While I don’t immediately seek to return to an employed state, I will still need to learn a number of roles to be an entrepreneur. The most important being Software Developer, as for apps and other software I create for freelance or data privacy solutions will require the ability to develop software. However, others I’ll likely take on (and may be open to employment for) are:

  • Security Analyst: Taking on the task of securing data requires the ability to analyze the security of said data
  • Cloud Engineer: Learning how companies utilize cloud solutions, why they’re the go-to, and how they work
  • Information Technology Specialist: Developing User Friendly Designs requires the knowledge of what users struggle with

Keeping my Resume Up to Date

One of the things we learned was the idea of keeping the resume as a, “Living Document,” to show how vast our capabilities are. I was able to create mine and keep it up to date with a tool called Reactive Resume, a tool self-hostable and privacy-centric, while also allowing for a record of my achievements to be easily editable when a new resume is needed.

Asa Reinke, my H&R Block Mentor, and Jessica Curry, i.c.stars’ Director of Curriculum & Experiential Learning were both major players in the perfection of this resume. Keeping details line by line when needed for ATS, styling readibly for in person. The perfect balance between design and effectiveness. Pair that with a QR code for easy contact acquisition, and in my honest opinion you have one killer resume.