Thank you! Hmmm...the hardest part... that's a tough question. I'd say from a bootcamp standpoint it was just the pace of learning something that I had never laid my eyes on before. There were days where we would spend the morning doing a 1.5-2 hour lecture learning something totally new like React, and then have a lunch break, and then spend another 1.5-2 hours in the afternoon learning something totally different like AJAX or jQuery. It made it difficult to feel like the retention of knowledge was there.
Coming out of nursing school I felt really confident with myself and the knowledge that I had, so going into software dev feeling like I knew nothing was also a challenge(and still is at times). I was so used to knowing everything in my previous career, and that can often inflate the imposter syndrome feeling, but I know that will eventually fade with time...it's likely no different than how I felt on my first day on the job as a nurse.
Another thing I've noticed to be a learning curve is the pace of work. I was so used to being heavily task oriented as a nurse, and having that go-go-go work environment. It's been an adjustment for me coming into corporate tech because the pace is so much more laid back. It often leaves me feeling like I am not doing enough, even though I know I am, but that too will gradually change over time.
haha, I guess it same for everyone regardlesss of the field they are in or were working in previously. You're absolutely right on the fast-paced learning point, you're always a beginner every other day in the software dev field. With so many frameworks/libraries to learn and experiment with it becomes overwhelming very quickly when you're not knowing where to go.
I seriously started learning in 2020, and because of the lockdowns got very consistent in following the schedule of the courses I was taking. Grasping one concept after the other, however, the real challenge is building stuff with what you learned.
Being from the medical field can give you benefits as well. Most of the cool projects I see are built by an amalgamation of contrasting skills, same for you. Maybe using a medical dataset to run AI models to predict things, etc. Data viz. is cool too. Tons of possibilities.
Good luck to you, share your devlog here, I'll follow. Stay connected.
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Thank you! Hmmm...the hardest part... that's a tough question. I'd say from a bootcamp standpoint it was just the pace of learning something that I had never laid my eyes on before. There were days where we would spend the morning doing a 1.5-2 hour lecture learning something totally new like React, and then have a lunch break, and then spend another 1.5-2 hours in the afternoon learning something totally different like AJAX or jQuery. It made it difficult to feel like the retention of knowledge was there.
Coming out of nursing school I felt really confident with myself and the knowledge that I had, so going into software dev feeling like I knew nothing was also a challenge(and still is at times). I was so used to knowing everything in my previous career, and that can often inflate the imposter syndrome feeling, but I know that will eventually fade with time...it's likely no different than how I felt on my first day on the job as a nurse.
Another thing I've noticed to be a learning curve is the pace of work. I was so used to being heavily task oriented as a nurse, and having that go-go-go work environment. It's been an adjustment for me coming into corporate tech because the pace is so much more laid back. It often leaves me feeling like I am not doing enough, even though I know I am, but that too will gradually change over time.
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haha, I guess it same for everyone regardlesss of the field they are in or were working in previously. You're absolutely right on the fast-paced learning point, you're always a beginner every other day in the software dev field. With so many frameworks/libraries to learn and experiment with it becomes overwhelming very quickly when you're not knowing where to go.
I seriously started learning in 2020, and because of the lockdowns got very consistent in following the schedule of the courses I was taking. Grasping one concept after the other, however, the real challenge is building stuff with what you learned.
Being from the medical field can give you benefits as well. Most of the cool projects I see are built by an amalgamation of contrasting skills, same for you. Maybe using a medical dataset to run AI models to predict things, etc. Data viz. is cool too. Tons of possibilities.
Good luck to you, share your devlog here, I'll follow. Stay connected.