It was in 2010. I was public server at the post office (that is a good thing for a 20 year old Brazilian guy).
I was at the college doing Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology.
In the winter vacation I did a Ruby on Rails course. It was superficial.
One day I saw a remote job to work for a Startup. I thought "I am too junior for that" but I listed to a friend who said "It is your chance, Man. Just do it." And I did it.
I started noob as hell doing a lot of code smells and anti-patterns. I was "alone" in the project. The other developers just wanted to deliver their job in other project so I was assigned to work without guidance.
It was very important to me because I learned to experiment, to take risks, to accept that the code is awful in the very beginning and that I can put a lot of effort if I want to become better on what I do faster.
6 months later I dropped out of college because I was learning so much more alone.
Almost 11 months later I was receiving proposals from other companies. It was great but with a lot of stress. I would do it everything again!
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It was in 2010. I was public server at the post office (that is a good thing for a 20 year old Brazilian guy).
I was at the college doing Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology.
In the winter vacation I did a Ruby on Rails course. It was superficial.
One day I saw a remote job to work for a Startup. I thought "I am too junior for that" but I listed to a friend who said "It is your chance, Man. Just do it." And I did it.
I started noob as hell doing a lot of code smells and anti-patterns. I was "alone" in the project. The other developers just wanted to deliver their job in other project so I was assigned to work without guidance.
It was very important to me because I learned to experiment, to take risks, to accept that the code is awful in the very beginning and that I can put a lot of effort if I want to become better on what I do faster.
6 months later I dropped out of college because I was learning so much more alone.
Almost 11 months later I was receiving proposals from other companies. It was great but with a lot of stress. I would do it everything again!