Crash Course

Hello again everybody and welcome to another edition of Jon's blog "Making Disciples".

Many of you may be wondering why I titled my personal blog Making Disciples, well, yes I am going to be writing blogs that are intended to help build up Christians in their walk, to motivate them to follow Jesus and give up their lifestyle of sin.

Honestly, these blogs are coming. I have one in draft right now, but as they require more time to make, I will not be making them as often as my personal blog.

So, about my day today. Today I met with the person from Robert Half Technology about that job with Compassion. It seems like I fit the job description very well, but I am missing a couple of key skills. So this weekend I have to take a crash course on how to program in ASP and C#. Fun stuff. I started with $50 worth of "for idiots" books and trying to find a copy of Visual studio. Luckily I did not find visual studio because when I got home I searched the net and found Microsoft offers a 30 day free trial of Visual Studio. That's great news since I bet this is an expensive program.

So now I am trying to install all the software so I can get started on learning my programming. I have until Wednesday when I get to take a test on these programs and the results (if positive) get forwarded on to Compassion International to see if they want to hire me. Since these are the key skills that they are looking for I have to learn them quickly and be somewhat proficient at it. I am highly counting on my previous programming experience to speed me along this journey.

So my weekend plans have completely changed, can I learn all of this by Wednesday? Stay tuned to find out (AND PLEASE PRAY FOR ME!) :)

Visual Studio has finished installing so I had better get to work.