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I’m a self-taught developer that changed careers during the Covid pandemic. I was able to switch from education to w...
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Here's a way I think you should start your journey. (proven and tested by me 🤚)
START HERE...
Key Take-aways:
Oh and if you're a faith person: You ought to pray. Trust that God's got you and that He loves you. Having His peace through out this whole process is KEY for getting through it. And don't put your life on pause, go out and live. Don't focus all your energy on job hunting. Go for a walk on the beach. Do something you love (without feeling guilty). Those are all acts of faith that you believe indeed God has your back & you don't need to worry.
Dealing with imposter syndrome is a tough one. Definitely learning to trust yourself is something that gets better with time.
I did the exact same thing.... changed careers during the pandemic. From working in 2 international airports for so many years, to learning how to code and I love it!!!!🩷🩷🩷🩷
awesome. congrats!
Imposter can be a beast. Watched "I Suck." ... "I Rock!": youtube.com/watch?v=cFIF46j59LY It's "a lengthy description of the two extremes: impostor syndrome (undervaluing your skills) and Dunning-Kruger effect (not knowing that you don't know)."
Recommend it to everybody.
Ooh, sounds intriguing. I'll definitely give it a watch :)
this is really great
thanks
Thank you
Love walks on the beach
That's very interesting, thank you! Could you please explain more on how to do the first point though? How do you job shadow someone in tech if you're not in a company with a techinical division?
Nice comment. The peace factor and walking by faith in this industry are very key if one wants to succeed in this industry.
I often get asked lately about the situation in the programmer market and I will be sharing this post from now on as an answer!
My quick summary of it with a bit of my own spin on it:
Oh yeah, researching the job position and explaining why you care about are two great points I missed!
Thank you very much.
"Learn how to solve problems" is timeless advice, self taught or otherwise. I recommend this post by Chelsea Troy about how formal education is changing in response to LLMs.
Nice tips! It's kinda motivating and also makes you feel you are not alone in this.
Nice! yes, the point is that anyone can put these into practice :)
I agree with all points on this article. The soft skills take longer to develop. I believe junior devs should learn how to implement to right behaviors from the beginning. From years of experience, learning, and mentoring, I decided to consolidate the key learning on an ebook.
really nice.
very very good article.
thanks! what did you find insightful about it?
thank you for reatching out.
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This is a master piece. I'm well pleased with this 👍
thanks for the kind words
Excellent post! This was a great read, thanks!
glad you liked it!
Thank you very much. 💖
Wasp is everywhere. You are nailing the content that I least I NEEDED. Grats
have you tried wasp?! :)
Quite an informative share
Glad you liked it :)
This article will help you land the job without dying inside! But doing the job will still kill you on the inside.
then you took the wrong job :)
Which is why I read articles like this one, my friend
Useful, thanks!
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Love it! Especially the "do the boring work" part, that's my favorite.
and if you can find ways to like the boring work, you'll never hate going work :)
Finally, I missed my Vinny posts! Great read
Thanks, friend.
Great Tips Vinny !
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Thank you
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Very excellent article!!
Thanks for writtng!!
glad you liked it :)
Thank you so much this was so motivative
This was a very insightful and motivating post. Thanks for the great advice/guidance, Vince!
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Such a great article!!
Thank you!
Question: what is considered “boring/grunt work”? Because, to me that falls in line with junior development standards, meaning junior devs typically get the grunt work/boring stuff because they need the experience of starting out which leads to being given the more ehhhh trying not to use the wrong words here, so I guess I’ll just repeat, grunt/ boring stuff that senior devs just don’t want to deal with. If my views are wrong here please educate me.
Aside from that, I found this article to be very insightful, but also slightly saddening because to me it says that the majority of junior dev positions are becoming moot and void, which to me was the starting line - would you also suggest doing freelancing work to gain added experience? What additional open sources would you recommend on GitHub to us beginners to add to/collab on?
What really stands out to me in this article is the author builds a lot of apps with real world business significance. That's the advice you always get, and it's important advice. This is what that advice looks like. Recently, I forked a repo for the realworld app and have begun exploring it on my local machine. First open source repo work!
I know senior dev/IT guy on LinkedIn who swears by certs. I think some certs, like AWS or Cisco, can look nice on a resume, but I do also think it's easy to get overly focused on courses and not building things. Recently, a lot of my work on apps has involved working on my own problems, as you said. For example, I'm currently working on a tool to help curate and do screening on job board postings. This solves a real world problem for me, namely the problem of seeing job postings on general sites which have information that's not reflective of the actual job. Ex: ZipRecruiter posting w/100K salary. Click and it's actually a volunteer job.
I'm working on an app/site for this problem.
It's also OK to go to a psychiatrist or psychotherapist. Many people, like me, have big mental issues that can be fixed. Just go and don't ask additional questions why. If you can't find a job for a year and you are a good developer, that means the problem is not with the market but with you. Maybe you are not conscious of it, but it's visible in interviews.