Clever stories to make money without a Computer Science degree

Pete has interviewed hundreds of self-taught developers for his website, NoCSDegree. In this episode, he shares his top 6 stories that YOU Can learn from to make money as an employee, freelancer, or entrepreneur (Pete covers all 3)

Timestamps

• 00:00 Introduction
• 02:00 How Beatrice used a meetup to advance their career
• 07:15 Arvid Kahl founded a $55K/month business
• 09:45 Please remember to subscribe and share the episode 😇
• 10:15 Aldhair went from cruise ship worker to developer in 5 months with Scrimba
• 12:32 Do you need to meet 100% of the requirements to apply for a job (nah)
• 15:54 Josy got a remote job as a junior dev 🎉
• 18:26 Richard earned $15k a month at just 22 from a rural area with low living costs
• 23:21 Tae'lur from waitress to developer
• 26:22 What do al these developers have in common?
• 28:05 Outro and thanks

Links

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• Links from the episode
  • Getting a developer apprenticeship with a sociology degree (Beatrice)
  • Learning to code with no CS degree and making $55k a month (Arvid Kahl)
  • Covid career change - from cruise ship cleaner to developer (Aldhair)
  • Josy learned coding and now has a remote developer job (Josy)
  • From Waitress to Software Developer in 8 months (Tae'lur)
  • This 22 year old self-taught PHP developer earns $15k a month and lives in an Austrian farmhouse (Richard)

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