Hello friends! For unplanned reasons, I recently changed my abroad route to Latvia all of a sudden, and I have been trying to build a new life here for a full 10 months now. In 10 months, I have experienced many good and bad things. I want to share these with you and, from now on, make life updates and personal notes here at regular intervals.
About a year ago, I graduated from university. Before my university graduation, I always had a plan to go abroad. At first, I wanted to go to Australia. But this plan of mine had to be changed to Latvia due to some problems. For this reason, I applied to Riga Technical University in Latvia in August of last year. I wanted to choose the master’s program in Business Informatics. One of the biggest reasons for this choice of mine was that I had completed a Business Information Systems undergraduate degree. Since the Business Informatics program is a true continuation of Management Information Systems, it perfectly suited my future career plans. After making my choices like this, I passed the school admission interviews, received my admission, and came to Latvia on September 15.
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The first few months I came here, I had a lot of free time. At first, I did not start the Master’s since I would start with the foundations course and then start the master’s education, so I had a lot of free time. I spent most of my free time developing myself professionally. Towards the end of October, I applied for the Amazon Cloud Engineer boot camp organized by Accenture, and I was accepted. I received training for two weeks during the first 12 days of February. During the training period, we made an ending project, and participants were scored in this way. About a month after the bootcamp ended, I was called for an internship interview, and an interview day was given. Then I went to the interview, and the interview result came out about a month later. I was accepted for the internship, and I started my internship on April 3.
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During the internship, we did special tasks for interns, and we constantly learned new tools. In this way, we were asked to develop ourselves. Since Accenture is a project-based company, we had to get a project to finish our internship. About 2 months later, I was invited for a project interview on May 12, and I started working on the project after the interview on May 15. On June 12, I officially started working as an Analyst. Now I am in a 3-month official trial and follow-up period until September 9. If there is no hitch, my trial period will be over, and I will continue to work.
For now, these are all I can say as a summary of what’s going on. If you have any questions about Latvia, I opened a blog in Turkish; actually, I opened it much earlier, but I could not pay much attention to it due to a lack of time. But now I think I will take care of that blog too. If you want to take a look, you can visit LetonyadanSelam.com.