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= Choosing my first internship

Context

• Had offers for both excelar technologies and fraser health authority
  • 1st is startup-ish, QA developer for apis
    • 19.2/40/w
  • 2nd is front end react
    • 17.5/37.5/w
• Indecisive

Thoughts

• I kinda wished I didn’t rush in and instantly chose the higher wage/hours … should have taken advice from june and them before choosing as both june and ate regie said to take the front end position

  • Should have been weary of my wording and my intentions, I knew that I still wanted to think before deciding

• Initially leaned towards excelar for higher pay, then realized that fraser health would have been much better if I wanted to refine my front-end skills seeing that I literally won’t do any of that

• Now that I think about it though, I should also be thinking long long term and from a higher perspective

  • If i take into account what jsn said, it’s probably better to try new things with coop
    • But at the same time if I was stacked front-end then I probably could have gotten any other offer after
      • If i compare the likeliness of me getting accepted again though, I can easily get re-accepted in fraser health but I wouldn’t say the same for Excelar, so I guess that was one of my initial reasons as well

• Excelar

  • Pros
    • Higher pay
    • Entrepreneurial, would better resemble my plan
    • Get to try a new position
    • 8 months potential
    • Can actually help as I get to work with APIs
  • Cons
    • Probably a weaker resume than if I were to be a react one-trick

• Fraser Health

  • Pros
    • Help me become super stacked at front-end, can continue climbing easy
    • Can take a course in surrey as well
  • Cons
    • Lower pay and hours
    • Further transit

• What should I be focusing on?

  • Do I really want to go entrepreneurial or do I want to have a stable front-end job initially ?
  • Do I want to specialize or do I want to try out other positions first ?
  • General understanding of entrepreneurial process
    • I guess I wouldn’t want to know the process of a worker since I want to do more higher order stuff

I think I can always get another front-end job, but this position is kind of rare I’d say

Did I learn anything?

Future Plan

• Think more thoroughly before