Every time I finally learn a new programming skill and get a new job... They will never let me near the code.
I end up being forced to use Excel, but I will even make Excel into an application.
This will create a lot of excitement and I will be allowed to evaluate and purchase new software, customize and integrate it... However, I only ever use my coding skills when building Prototypes for presentations or when trying to customize or integrate and out-of-the-box software.
It is so difficult to get larger organizations to modernize that I am beginning to think I will have to start my own company to ever get access to the codebase.
PS: My Professional Timeline -->
1) Tried to get a CS degree around 2000 and failed Java.
2) Tried to get a CS degree again in 2002 and failed C++
3) Gave up and got a Business degree in Entrepreneurship in 2008
4) Graduated to an economic collapses and could not find a job.
5) Started selling XTC in desperation. Became a raver.
6) Got busted by DEA. Went to prison for 2 years.
7) Got back to San Francisco in 2013 and found a job as a QuickBooks Expert --> Decided to specialize in eCommerce Businesses (First smart decision)
8) Got a job as an accounting expert at an Accounting Automation company.
Got promoted --> Manager of Customer Success --> Sales Engineer
9) Did not know what a Sales Engineer was. Thought my CEO had made up the position.
10) Googled "Sales Engineer". Went to Sales Engineer MeetUps.
11) Went back to community college. (Second smart decision)
12) Passed SQL, C#, Java, and PHP.
13) Community College now felt too slow. I started learning online.
14) FreeCodeCamp, TeamTreeHouse, ACloudGuru, CodePen, Dev.to and many more are now my teachers.
15) Read "WTF" by Tim O'Reilly Quit my job in San Francisco.
16) Joined UpWork and moved to Hawaii.
17) Got a few low paying gigs on UpWork
18) One of these became a Sales Engineer role at a DocuSign competitor.
19) Grew that company. Worked as if it was my own company (Third smart decision)
20) Got head hunted by a Fortune 500 Company based on my LinkedIn profile.
21) Now I am stuck working in Excel again.
you've had quite a journey, i still have a very long journey ahead of me i am currently gunning to a CS degree in a university in nigeria and i feel like it is the worst decision i have ever made two years into the school and i haven't learnt a darn about programming so i resulted to youtube.
I hope to make the best of myself with the little resources i have and i know that inasmuch as i don't stop believing, i would get what i am chasing.
thanks for sharing.
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Every time I finally learn a new programming skill and get a new job... They will never let me near the code.
I end up being forced to use Excel, but I will even make Excel into an application.
This will create a lot of excitement and I will be allowed to evaluate and purchase new software, customize and integrate it... However, I only ever use my coding skills when building Prototypes for presentations or when trying to customize or integrate and out-of-the-box software.
It is so difficult to get larger organizations to modernize that I am beginning to think I will have to start my own company to ever get access to the codebase.
PS: My Professional Timeline -->
1) Tried to get a CS degree around 2000 and failed Java.
2) Tried to get a CS degree again in 2002 and failed C++
3) Gave up and got a Business degree in Entrepreneurship in 2008
4) Graduated to an economic collapses and could not find a job.
5) Started selling XTC in desperation. Became a raver.
6) Got busted by DEA. Went to prison for 2 years.
7) Got back to San Francisco in 2013 and found a job as a QuickBooks Expert --> Decided to specialize in eCommerce Businesses (First smart decision)
8) Got a job as an accounting expert at an Accounting Automation company.
Got promoted --> Manager of Customer Success --> Sales Engineer
9) Did not know what a Sales Engineer was. Thought my CEO had made up the position.
10) Googled "Sales Engineer". Went to Sales Engineer MeetUps.
11) Went back to community college. (Second smart decision)
12) Passed SQL, C#, Java, and PHP.
13) Community College now felt too slow. I started learning online.
14) FreeCodeCamp, TeamTreeHouse, ACloudGuru, CodePen, Dev.to and many more are now my teachers.
15) Read "WTF" by Tim O'Reilly Quit my job in San Francisco.
16) Joined UpWork and moved to Hawaii.
17) Got a few low paying gigs on UpWork
18) One of these became a Sales Engineer role at a DocuSign competitor.
19) Grew that company. Worked as if it was my own company (Third smart decision)
20) Got head hunted by a Fortune 500 Company based on my LinkedIn profile.
21) Now I am stuck working in Excel again.
you've had quite a journey, i still have a very long journey ahead of me i am currently gunning to a CS degree in a university in nigeria and i feel like it is the worst decision i have ever made two years into the school and i haven't learnt a darn about programming so i resulted to youtube.
I hope to make the best of myself with the little resources i have and i know that inasmuch as i don't stop believing, i would get what i am chasing.
thanks for sharing.