Long story short: Last week, I had my first positive response to my job hunt efforts from a company called Aircall. They're looking for a tech support guy.

Today at 2:30pm I had my first interview with them. I was pleased to find that instead of someone in HR, the (Zoom) interview was with the guy who would be my boss if all goes well.

We chatted. It went generally well. It became clear to me that the thing I could use the most improvement on is my (never finished) CCNA studies that I mentioned on my resume.

CCNA certification, for those who don't know, is costly in both time/effort and financially for the testing. So I told him that I wouldn't register for the course until we had things a little more solidified (I should hear back in ~1 week according to him) but that I would get on refreshing myself via YouTube and other resources. He seemed to really like that.

So that's what I'm doing now. I found this CCNA Full Course on YouTube and dove in.

Wow. It's amazing how much of this is coming back to me and how quickly. I'm now actually a little worried that I undersold my networking prowess in the interview.

Sure, I'm only a couple videos into the playlist, but everything he's covered so far brought back very specific memories from my I.T. past.

I have to say - that feels really damn good.

Oh, and the starting pay is better than I hoped, and the job is fully remote, so I could work from anywhere! Please keep your fingers crossed for me. :)