(Part 2) Best products from r/JobFair

Most current information you are going to want to read online. There is no substitute for that. The books I'm currently reading through are:

The Web Application Hacker's Handbook 2nd Ed

The Tangled Web

Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide

Webbots, Spiders and Screen Scrapers

NoStarchPress fanboy all the way :)

Keep in mind, though, that the technical requirements are only half of being employable. You also need to be a good employee, who can work with the client and keep them satisfied. For those, I recommend:

True Professionalism

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I go to the coffeeshop and write 2000 words every day in the morning, that's my minimum. I've broken 10k in a day before, but it's usually hard for me to get through the 5k mark. Hopefully when I drop my full time job (later this year) I'll be able to work my way up.

When I first started writing, I could only do like 200-300 words an hour. Now I'm up to more like 1000-1500. Practice, practice, practice.

Also, the 2k to 10k thing helped me, like, a LOT: http://www.amazon.com/2k-10k-Writing-Faster-Better-ebook/dp/B009NKXAWS

If you're interested in getting one for yourself at some point, I really like this one. It just sits on top of your existing desk instead of being a huge desk in and of itself, and it's roughly 1/3rd the price of a full-sized variable standing desk. I ended up just getting it myself without going through my office and it's been pretty noticeable so far. They have smaller models that are more appropriate for a single-monitor set-up, but the large one works really well for 2.

Aye, mastering keigo is like learning a secret hand-shake. It's really amazing the kinds of reactions you can get to utterly ridiculous requests if you just ask politely.

Reminds me of part of Jay Rubin's book Making Sense of Japanese (which I highly recommend and have read several times): he talks about a sign he purchased at a department store that says "本日お休みさせていただきます". This sentence is amazing. It's subjectless, is in polite-form, and has a causative. It's literally something like, "Today I am humbly receiving the favor of resting/taking off".

Point being, that's such common grammar but very complicated and essential to master.

Yea, it actually worked out really well. As far as books, the only ones I have real experience with are the O'Reilly "animal" books (hopefully you know which ones I'm talking about), especially the "cookbooks." The downside about using Google as my teacher is it meant my programming fundamentals were not very good when I started. I do have an Object-Oriented JavaScript book that did an amazing job teaching me how to do my job better.

I read 3D Math Primer For Graphics And Game Development and can recommend it. As the title suggests, it goes pretty deep into 3D math, so I'd recommend it as an intermediate read rather than a beginner one. In terms of beginning reads, there's plenty of information/free resources out there. Specifically, I'd learn trigonometry, vector math in 2 and 3 dimensions (dot product, cross product), basic calculus, and basic linear algebra, in that order.

A great book to read is In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch.

Also, just practice. Grab a movie or TV show and cut a trailer in the style of other trailers you see. Try to make a trailer for Transformers look like a Nancy Meyers movie. Or turning Pets into a Kubrick film.

I ordered Flash Cards similar to these to help me study it helped, I passed both my LSW and LCSW exams with ease on the first shot

One more thought, buy SPIN selling the book. It will help you tremendously. Other sales styles like covey and challenger want you to use SPIN techniques, but build upon it.

Buy on amazon

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ens%C5%8D

Just to give my two cents, although it is really old, Situational Functional Japanese is good for learning grammar. It's in 3 parts and has a book of drills that can be used with it.

Also, practice speaking or you'll end up like a lot of the Japanese people in Japan; able to read English, but can't form sentences.

For ColdFusion, get the latest WACK, it is considered the bible.

http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-ColdFusion-Application-Construction-Volume/dp/032166034X

If you just do a few hours a night, you can get through it (do ALL of the examples!!!) in a few months - you'll be able to code just about any web app you see today.

I use one of these at work: https://www.amazon.com/Standing-Desk-Adjustable-Retractable-Keyboard/dp/B019GTZ5ZA

A lot of professionals are fans of Tom Sant while others speak highly of the Shipley approach.

Personally I think the best advice is this: know your audience. The more you know, the more you can tailor your content so that it speaks to their goals, and addresses their pain points. So while I'm not client-facing, I rely on sales/account managers to tell me all they know about the prospect/client. At the start of every project, I'll ask them questions so I can get an idea of how we got to this point, and what their key motivations are.

As for moving over from non-profits, I think the skills are transferable, but you may have to target Bid Coordinator roles before you can make the jump to Bid Writer or Bid Manager roles. You may have more experience than me, in which case ignore my advice!