It was 2005, I was at a horrible corp qa job, got myself Python, PHP, MySQL, Ruby and Rails books at a discount and devoured them, shortly after the 1st Rails Conference ever held at Spain happened and I went (faking a sick day because there was no such thing as training days-off at that job) added that to my CV and that got me into the search results of one of the first companies doing Rails. There was no competition, having read half of the Rails book made me the best candidate.
If you are trying to break into tech, there are basically 2 strategies:
Learn something very popular, get a low paying job (high certainty)
Learn something fringe, still not mainstream, get a niche job (high uncertainty)
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It was 2005, I was at a horrible corp qa job, got myself Python, PHP, MySQL, Ruby and Rails books at a discount and devoured them, shortly after the 1st Rails Conference ever held at Spain happened and I went (faking a sick day because there was no such thing as training days-off at that job) added that to my CV and that got me into the search results of one of the first companies doing Rails. There was no competition, having read half of the Rails book made me the best candidate.
If you are trying to break into tech, there are basically 2 strategies: