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Scheduling Your Future {#scheduling}

You might find it a bit scary thinking about your future. You might be tempted to procrastinate making important decisions about your future, see figure @ref(fig:schedule-fig). There is a risk of getting stuck in a do-nothing or busy waiting loop. This guidebook is here to help you break out of that loop. One way to breakout of an unproductive loop is to schedule some time every week where you work on personal development and job applications. Doing good applications takes time and you'll probably find you can't do as many applications as you might like.

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(ref:captionschedule) The biggest waste of time is the time spent not getting started on a project. Your future might seem big and unknown but it's really not as scary as you might think and getting started can be surprisingly enjoyable. New Project? Every time… by Visual Thinkery is licenced under CC-BY-ND

If you're a University of Manchester student, the live Coding your Future (COMP2CARS) workshops sessions are on Tuesdays at 4pm. COMP2CARS complements the second year tutorials (COMP2TUT) at the University of Manchester and takes place in the same slot as COMP2TUT when you meet your personal tutor. See your timetable at timetables.manchester.ac.uk.

Week 0: Experiencing {#week0}

Welcome week, starting 19th September:

  • Tuesday 19th September at 2pm-4pm, following from the welcome back to year 2, a panel of students returning from their year of industrial experience will share their stories of recruitment and employment. They will be answering any questions that you have for them about their placements and their transition from students to professionals. Read Experiencing your future chapter @ref(experiencing)

Week 1: Debugging {#week1}

Tuesday 26th September at 4pm: Depending on when you meet your tutor

Week 2: Debugging {#week2}

Tuesday 3rd October at 4pm: Depending on when you meet your tutor

  • Either COMP2TUT: Meet your tutor (if you didn't meet them last weeek) see digital.cs.manchester.ac.uk/student-groups/

  • Either COMP2CARS: Debug your CV (self assessment) using section @ref(checklist). Read Debugging your future (chapter @ref(debugging)) and Hacking your future (chapter @ref(hacking))

  • Weeks 1 and 2: COMP2TUT, meet with personal tutor

  • Weeks 3 to 6: Seminars in Lecture Theatre A, engineering building

  • Week 7: Reading week - take a breather

  • Weeks 8 to 10: Seminars in Lecture Theatre A, engineering building

  • Weeks 11 & 12: COMP2TUT, meet with personal tutor

Outside of that, its a good idea to organise some scheduled time to work on continuous professional development (CPD), particularly the not very scary and actually quite enjoyable tasks of designing, building, testing, deploying and coding your future.

Week 0: Experiencing {#week0}

Welcome week, starting 18th September:

Thanks to our panellists for answering questions via mentimeter Ask Me Anything (A.M.A.) from the audience about their placements and their transition from students to professionals.

There is more information on Experiencing Your Future chapter @ref(experiencing) and student case studies of employment in chapter @ref(hearing) on Hearing your Future: the Coding Your Future podcast.

Week 1: Debugging {#week1}

Tuesday 26th September at 4pm: Depending on your when you meet your tutor

  • Either COMP2CARS: Debug your CV (self assessment) using section @ref(checklist) in Debugging your future (chapter @ref(debugging))
  • Or COMP2TUT: Meet your tutor see digital.cs.manchester.ac.uk/student-groups get feedback on your CV

Week 2: Debugging {#week2}

Tuesday 3rd October at 4pm: Depending on your when you meet your tutor

  • Either COMP2TUT: Meet your tutor (if you didn't meet them last week) see digital.cs.manchester.ac.uk/student-groups
  • Either COMP2CARS: Debug your CV (self assessment) using section @ref(checklist). Read Debugging your future (chapter @ref(debugging)) and Hacking your future (chapter @ref(hacking))

Week 3: Hacking, 10th October {#week3}

  • Hacking, debugging and questioning your future, activities and questions based around chapters, @ref(hacking), @ref(debugging) and @ref(questioning)

Week 4: Finding, 17th October {#week4}

  • Finding your future, see chapter @ref(finding)

Week 5: Knowing, 24th October {#week5}

  • Exploring your future, see chapter @ref(exploring)

Week 6: Resting, 31st October {#week6}

  • Take a breather, its reading week.

Week 7: Writing, 7th November {#week7}

  • Writing your future, , see chapter @ref(writing)

Week 8: Writing, 14th November {#week8}

  • Writing your future, part 2 of 2, see chapter @ref(writing)