{"id":2446,"date":"2024-12-02T10:53:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T15:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2024-12-02T12:25:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T17:25:57","slug":"being-productive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/being-productive\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Productive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Godot 2D Tutorials<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While I&#8217;ve been struggling to find work for over a year now, I&#8217;ve been keeping fresh by doing tutorials in various computer related disciplines. I&#8217;ve been brushing up on my React skills by reading some great books mentioned in a previous post, but I&#8217;ve also bought a Godot tutorial pack from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedev.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.gamedev.tv\/ <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-edited.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of the lesson I'm currently on\" class=\"wp-image-2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-edited.png 1440w, https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-edited-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-edited-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-edited-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I started the 2D tutorial a while ago before Cozy Cretaceous and put it down when I had to focus on that. But now that I have some time before Christmas, when it seems as if the job hunt can take a bit of a pause, I&#8217;m using my time to work on it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall the 2D tutorial is very simple, and the core concepts are of course all things that I already know, but having a guided tour through the Godot development experience is very nice. If I were to give it a rating, I would probably give it a 4 out of 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I only remove one point for not having a summary of the changes made at the end of each lesson like Unity has at the end of all of their in-house tutorials. I think that&#8217;s a nice touch and a way to keep things fresh for the learners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So check it out if you are interested. I think it&#8217;s definitely worth the price of admission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I need work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On the job hunt front, Toronto has been a desert of employment ever since the large swath of layoffs started last year. I picked a really silly time to give up my previous job, but I had my reasons why I needed to resign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping things start to look up in Ontario, but with how things are going, I feel as if it is only going to get worse before it gets better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That said, does anyone have tips for applying to jobs overseas? Do you have any ideas for places that are starved for talent? Let me know in the comments!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gotta Be Productive<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, I&#8217;ll leave you with this musical interlude by MattstaGraham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MattstaGraham - Gotta Be Productive (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ezBPju7VBgw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Godot 2D Tutorials While I&#8217;ve been struggling to find work for over a year now, I&#8217;ve been keeping fresh by doing tutorials in various computer related disciplines. I&#8217;ve been brushing up on my React skills by reading some great books mentioned in a previous post, but I&#8217;ve also bought a Godot tutorial pack from https:\/\/www.gamedev.tv\/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,232,4,398,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-musings","category-game-development","category-geekytechnicalstuff","category-godot","category-siteoftheday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions\/2452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}