After selling (or donating) 90% of my belongings back in December, I packed my little car up with my remaining earthly possessions, left Kansas City and drove to San Francisco. Upon arriving on the West Coast, I unpacked my car and then sold that too!

Leaving my job and a regular income was rather terrifying. I owe my livelihood for the last 9 months to my parental-inherited-frugalness, and the kindness and generosity of one other person. I’m not going to reveal who that person is, but they are the BEST! A top-notch human being, and you would be lucky to know this person.

Since attending school has been a full-time commitment, I could not work and, as you can imagine, my savings account has started to diminish. Then, at almost the same moment where I started to feel a little worried about the status of my savings account, I was asked if I was interested in helping other students through the Computer Science curriculum!

I said, YES!!

I have had plenty of student-jobs in the past. During my college years, I worked as a cashier, a medical courier and I even had a seasonal job at a chocolate shop! But, this is the first student-job that I have loved!

Here are the basics:

-I have 9 students on my team and I am their team-leader.
-I hold a daily stand-up with the entire team.
-I host a time where we can peer-program as a team to work through some tough algorithms.
-I have daily shifts where I monitor the help channel for the cohort.
-I have 1:1 meetings with each student, each day to go over the code they wrote the previous day.
-I do code reviews.
-And, like most jobs, I fill out the daily paperwork and logs that keep the ship sailing!

I honestly LOVE this job! Don’t get me wrong, it is challenging and some days I am crazily busy, but overall it’s an amazing gig.

And boy-oh-boy I love getting a paycheck again!