At this time next week I’ll be inside an office in a big Australian company working in my first dev job! I’m very scared and I’ll try to use these next seven days to do as much work as I can to be prepared. Checklist Up to this morning I didn’t have a very good …
I did it!!! After two years of coding obsession, I got my first programming job! I’m in freaking heaven! So many days working at 4 am, banging my head against the wall feeling stuck and hopeless and daydreaming about code, I got my offer!!!! I think this is the second happiest day of my life …
I’m currently in the middle of a selection for developer job . I haven’t been writing about it because I want the process to be over before I say anything else. Let’s just say that I’m very anxious about the results, even almost being certain I won’t get it. 😔 I had to study a …
Blog The last couple of weeks of my journey were tough! I went through one of those times every self-taught developer knows well: feeling absolutely stuck. The problem I had gained some momentum building my first app. Day after day I was just building, tweaking, implementing new features, without much trouble. My creative juices were …
This was a great week of coding! On Monday I got an e-mail from a big company saying my application was progressed to a shortlist of candidates they wanted to follow up with. Fantastic! I’ve applied for 9 jobs so far and haven’t heard back from anyone, so it was a great feeling! Not because …
