Starting month three of my job search. The rate of job contacts has slowed down (unsurprisingly) and I’m digging into tech refresher things and some new areas.

Doing some work on a ‘modern’ multicast telemetry encryption design. Looking at doing some general multicast coding in C++, C#, Java and Python as a good exercise (and to feed into the encryption part later). Spending some time increasing my depth of knowledge of Java Spring and Spring Boot as medical cloud opportunities seem very interesting. May dive into C# and Azure offerings as well at some point.

Still hopeful but certainly a bit discouraged. Have had a number of jobs get close but not close. Mostly small things like too little experience in some specific area…something I’m quite capable of dealing with but I certainly understand an employer deciding to take the safer route of going for someone who has everything they’re looking for.