I'd love to hear if you've transitioned to tech from another career and why you decided to make the switch!
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Yes ma’am, transitioned from the United Stated Army to becoming a software engineer!
I’m a Mechanical Engineer because I wanted to develop cars, I worked for a couple of automakers and had the offer I had always dreamt of before graduating but then, another company offered to pay me to attend a Software Engineering bootcamp. I took it without hesitating. No regrets.
I’m currently working on making the switch right now
I studied recreation management in college. While in school and after graduating I was a ropes course facilitator and camp counselor. I loved it, but I struggled to find full time work in the outdoor/adventure recreation space. After a few years of trying to figure out what I was going to do, I came across online courses for design and development. I spent a year using various online resources to teach myself to code. About a year later, I was hired for my first role as a developer. I have been in that role for just over a year now.
And you're a badass developer! So happy to have gotten the chance to work with you ❤️
Thank you! You are a badass as well and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to work with and learn from you this past year. You inspire me! :)
Hello Im an HR for 5 years in one company and I really feel sick of this job, cant stand arguing with people anymore, atm Im trying to switch career, trying to learn web dev :)
Well yeah I am in that process now. My work background really had nothing to do with the tech field. I have done many types of jobs over the years but I just knew that I needed to do something where my creative side could flourish and I could help others. I found that development seemed to fit that bill, so I got my degree, and I am pursuing that goal. I kind of dabbled with the idea of pursuing this as a job over the last couple of decades but I finally pushed myself to just do it. I am so glad I did.
Lovely to see how many other folk have transitioned from different backgrounds, makes me feel a bit less weird..!
I worked in public sector arts management for several years then did a load of dead-end jobs I hated. 12 years ago, in a desperate move to get myself some sort of career, I took a course in software engineering and found to my surprise (at almost 30) that I loved to code. 🙃 🤓
I have not transitioned as I am a student of Electrical Power Engineering but I am learning the frontend as well as backend programming.
I got a bachelor work psychology and a master in cognitive neuroscience. Was heading towards a phd but then I realized I actually liked more the technical part of research as compared to the whole burocratic and political part that sorrounds it. I decided to enroll in a cs degree and start all over again (note that I'm from Europe where universities have manageable study fees). Now I'm working for a übercool application monitoring company, and could not be happier of my decision to switch career
I was a lawyer for about 12 years before my first developer job. I wasn't a lawyer in a fancy white shoe firm; I was litigating cases in the state courts. There was no work life balance, life was work, plus the financial roller coaster was too stomach churning. I was planning on a family and it just wasn't fair to them.