After a little more than two years of teaching myself web development, I got a job as a software developer.
Resources used include:
Udacity Mobile web specialist (grow with google scholarship)
The Odin Project
Leetcode
From there I started doing personal projects and made a basic portfolio. I applied to maybe 150 jobs. Ultimately though, a local employer reached out to me on LinkedIn. I did a couple rounds of interview (nothing technical, oddly) and got the job!
I didn’t actually use free code camp much but this forum was a resource to me when I was struggling so I wanted to make a success post!
I’d rather not share since it has personal information on it.
I used material UI and React to make a simple static site that I hosted using github pages.
I had an avatar graphic, contact button, and link to my github as well as about ten projects. Many of them are just filler-type things I just copy-pasted and edited a bit. I put up a text adventure and GUI, some python scripts, a Lorem Ipsum generator and a few weather apps.
Not hosted in my portfolio I also made a static site for a musician friend and a drone weather CLI and GUI.
Overall I mostly stuck to the MERN stack and Python.
Congrats!You will have a great future! I am a junior too. Firstly, I have learnt front end web development, after that back end. Hope I will get a job!
Congratulations on your new job. All your hard work paid off. Do you mind sharing the income range? You don’t have to to give exact amount just 45-55 65-75 e.t.c.
Its all about being out there and just trying on. Congratz, my dude!
You give us hope. I have also some projects which i think is not something special, but after reading your story, i should give it a try.
Good news! Keep us updated about your daily routine, i am more interested in that side of the coin.
