So, my official last day at office was 30th Sept 2025 while I have new job to work with. But It’s okay, I already explain it about what I’ve done and what’s the next journey in my previous blog regarding the work update.

This is not my first time

Yup, this is not my first time I am being unemployed or living without a job. Back in 2014, my first company which I worked with was shutdown and getting trouble to pay our several months salary. Beside the office drama, my saving was less than 5 million but it was no big deal since I was living at my parent’s house. I even bought an electric guitar so I’m not bored at home.

It was 3 - 4 months without full time job. I did a freelance gig to do some project with my college friend. Earned enough to increase my saving. I also tried to open a little cafe with my local friends but then I decided to left because I enjoyed coding more and let my friends continue the business.

Back then in my home town, working at home or freelancing was unusual. People started looking me as a person who had many leisure time. And being at home all the time felt like a burden, so I started to looking a job. Finally I got it in small software company called Ayowes! in Malang.

Preparing the Laptop

Acer Nitro is my only one daily laptop after I returned my work laptop to office. Last time I used for work was around 2022 before I joined Flip. After that it only being used for gaming and casual browsing. So today I decided to cleaning it and updating some development environment in it.

Cleaned dust in fans, re-pasta the processor and GPU made the laptop is more “relaxed” now. Previously the fans sounding like a plane taking off.

Checked PHP version still using version 8+, so it’s fine. Next, updating Go version because I want it to latest version (1.23.2). I tried to download the latest version and install from official page, it didn’t update the version automatically. Stackoverflow suggested to use Chocolatey instead,

choco upgrade golang -y

and it updated automatically.

Updating Some Online Portfolios

Because I no longer associated with my ex employers, I urgently need to update my online portfolios.

Updated my Github

Updated personal site at didiktrisusanto.dev

That’s it for now. I planned to enhance more for my personal site but still don’t have any idea how.

Submit First Upwork Proposal

I read it somewhere and my friend who actively doing some gig in Upwork said it hard to get a project. But hey, who knows I’m lucky? I started to choose the project and submit my first proposal to it.

I have no big expectation on it but let’s see.

Following Up Recruiters

I have several job prospects on my hands. This morning I got rejection email after first stage of hiring process from a tech company based on Yogyakarta. I have no clue what’s the rejection factor so I replied to ask for clarify which points that make me failed.

Why I asked this? This is important for me because I would want to know why I failed so I can get better on the other hiring process.

No response yet, but let’s see for couple days. If still no response? I’ll simply let it go.

Been following up other recruiter from Glints for a prospect at a social commerce company. Her last update was I made through the next step after first interview, but it was several weeks ago so I little bit worried. Fortunately there’s good news, still considered as passed to the next step and they will decide the schedule for next interviews.

Hopefully this is a good sign.

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