{"id":3087,"date":"2020-03-30T01:58:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T06:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2020-03-07T09:06:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T14:06:41","slug":"you-need-some-basic-vocabulary-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2020\/03\/you-need-some-basic-vocabulary-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"You Need Some Basic Vocabulary to Start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>People can learn. A little basic vocabulary plus the desire to work hard means they are qualified to move into something new.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Years ago, a young woman told me about how she wanted to move into a Spanish linguist job. She had an English-Spanish dictionary and some books written in Spanish. She read as far as she could, looked up a word, repeat. This was incredibly slow and difficult, but that is how she started to teach herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently, I moved into a side area of a field that was relatively new to me. I faced the same thing as this young woman faced years ago. Read a little, hit a new term, study that term, resume reading, repeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did an exercise a few weekends ago where I was transforming a text file from one format to another. I did so in the Python programming language. I Googled much about Python and  regular expressions. To do so meant I needed the vocabulary to query Google. I had obtained that vocabulary a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hey recruiters! Judging job candidates? Do they have enough vocabulary to start? Do they have enough desire to go through the above, slow, difficult procedure? If the answers are, &#8220;Yes,&#8221; they are qualified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips People can learn. A little basic vocabulary plus the desire to work hard means they are qualified to move into something new. Years ago, a young woman told me about how she wanted to move into a Spanish linguist job. She had an English-Spanish dictionary and some books written in Spanish. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[277,105,20,416],"tags":[278,219,142,418,417],"class_list":["post-3087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commitment","category-competence","category-learning","category-vocabulary","tag-commitment","tag-competence","tag-learning","tag-qualified","tag-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3088,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions\/3088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}