The latest articles on DEV Community by Mariana Souza (@devmarianasouza). https://dev.to/devmarianasouza https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F1682089%2Fb2e89ee3-fab4-462c-9f4b-9a886542fbd0.jpeg https://dev.to/devmarianasouza en Mariana Souza Tue, 25 Jun 2024 22:23:20 +0000 https://dev.to/devmarianasouza/how-i-making-my-career-transition-and-why-17i0 https://dev.to/devmarianasouza/how-i-making-my-career-transition-and-why-17i0 <p>Just a note before I started: I'm from Brazil, I speak Portuguese, and I'm learning how communicate with the rest of the world with English, so, i'ts for pratice, take easy with me and my beginner english. Thanks, let's go! </p> <h2> The career of technology <em>always</em> been in my radar! </h2> <p>As soon as I finished my high school, I knew I needed a challenge. I wanted to stand out in on carrer super important and dificult. Wasn't been like my ordinary colleagues who chosen for a lawyer, dentist or journalist. I wanted more. </p> <p>Until here it seemed like a dream movie coming true, a girl ready to break down barriers, overcoming prejudices, but it wasn't. I didn't have good support around me, no one to encourage me to do something like that.</p> <p>So I gave up. I had nineteen years old and ready to stare in my second option for a career: A personal trainer. A little different, right? Yeah, I think too. But anyway, I thought it was possible to work with this my whole life. And guess? I wasn't. Neither as a personal nor as a school teacher, I beggin hate all the fitness world. It was less than 10 years. Do you agree with me that's not a whole life? </p> <p>So I gave up. In time and twenty-nine years old now, I let my young teenage inside me finally happy. I entered the IT area. </p> <h1> Now the question begins: how? </h1> <p>How I wanted it to start 10 years ago, in college. I'm currently studying System Analysis and Development college, and I'm loving. I thought will be it was so difficult to started learning again, in like mediavals ways, but the college is realy great, even thought its a distance learnig. <br> Next to that I’m currently studying on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node.js and Java and learning about React. </p> <p>I seek to experience both the backend, frontend and data science areas. Why? Because I wanna. I wanna try an little of each area to make sure I'm choose the right area for specialize more harder. <br> No more stupid sentences, I promise. </p> <p>What I think is super useful its make part of communities, in discord for example. At least it works for me. This it has to do with how is your personality. I'm a <em>so much</em> extroverted and communicative person, what's help me in networking and I'm also not have shame of ask. Helps a lot. I joined these communities through social networks, for example: Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and GitHub. I'm already do calls with people in differents states in my country because I have a problem and I'm not could resolve alone. It's so cool, meeting people with different accents. It's a nice experience. Do you have to try!</p> <p>This help you understand it every dev senior beginner like a dev jr some day. Which it normal to confuse with programming logic at the first time or with the thousand of steps of Git. </p> <p>You just need to keep try a little more.</p> <p>I'm not give up, I'm trying, and trying, until make a teenage dream come true.</p> beginners careertransition career