I write this for the dozens and hundreds of other square pegs like me out there, for whom the cards just fell slightly off center and before you knew it ten years go by and they realize they are surrounded by round holes with no way out. To some of you reading this may seem like excessive backstory, and if you feel that way skip ahead. In the last 12 months, I went from Hello World in Javascript, to deploying fullstack webapps, to getting a freelance job, to interviewing at top tech firms including Google, and receiving multiple six-figure offers as a professional software engineer. So please tear apart my essay and ask anything.įor full disclosure, I actually started this journey in late Nov 2016 so its a bit more than 12 months but the timesteps here still reflect reality. It will be targeted at a broader audience than just the FCC community, but I’m hoping to get some feedback from you folks in terms of important questions that I left unanswered. My journey is far from complete but has been relatively successful and I was thinking to write it up as a Medium post to help other career changers frame what they might want to do in 2018. Hello, I haven’t been very active here since finishing FCC a few months ago, but I wanted to give back to the community and share my story in hope that it might inspire others like me. Edit from 2019: I wrote a TLDR’ed version of this on Hacker Noon here
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