On reading the requirements for the Command Line Interface project, a project immediately popped to mind. A blog I enjoyed reading while I was planning my wedding also frequently posts insightful, thoughtful essays about non-wedding-related topics, but after the wedding, I just couldn’t handle seeing 8 posts a day in my RSS feed about weddings and to have to dig through them for the one or two posts a week that weren’t full of dress choices and family drama. They categorize the posts! I thought, Surely there’s a way to just look at the non-wedding posts. But, in fact, the interface offered master list of post categories, so while I could look at a list of posts if I knew the category I wanted, I would have had to dig through several posts to find a category. That wasn’t going to happen.
Remember cramming for a test? Notes sheet between your hands on the desk in the passing period before your highschool history class, repeating “1914, Sarajaveo” over and over in your head, stuffing the notes into your backpack as the bell rang. Nailing that item on the test but having to slam all that knowledge back into your head again come the final exam?
My first job out of college saw me working as a health coach/technical support lead/operations coordinator at a startup within a Fortune 100 company.