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Samantha Butler
Samantha Butler

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Complete beginner, overwhelmed, excited, clueless.

Today I decided I will start my journey. My journey to looking into coding and what that entails. However, as a teacher I know that coming into something completely unknown is extremely terrifying. A simple Google search shows millions of paths and I struggle to know where to begin in this field. But first things first.. What are my long term goals? Then I can work a path on how to get there. At least my organising/planning skills can finally be utilised into something productive outside the education system.

  • Longest term goal: Developer. (Very broad but until I know the branches of the industry, this will work for now).

  • Long term goal: Enter a junior developer role.

  • Short term goal: Apply and complete a junior developer bootcamp (qa.com)

  • Shortest term goal: Create CV, research bootcamps and find self-taught opportunities online, blog process.

So here I am completing 1 task: blog. Next, working on this CV.

In my overwhelmed state, I know that each small task helps toward the goal even if it branches out to a million other things. I hope to trust my instincts, the advice of others and the internet to help me through. I look forward to seeing my journey progress even if it becomes cringe-y in 10 years time. Have to start somewhere!

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