Started learning to program seriously early 2017. Love fixing problems so decided to switch careers from e-commerce and management to programming and web dev. Longterm goal is full stack developer.
I used to work e-commerce and was a project manager/operations guy at my previous employer, they went bankrupt and in a weird shift of fate I was held on to help finish the transition. There were two companies smashed together and they needed my help breaking them apart. Spent a lot of time waiting on projects and assignments. (hard to take initiative on a company that doesn't exist anymore)
In my downtime I spent a bunch of time with one of the dev's who was doing the actual split from the code side. She sorta angry mentored me into getting the programming itch and helped me get rid of my rose colored glasses quickly but still see the fun and challenge in coding. As a result I spent the rest of my time there teaching myself to program.
During the slow time I started an Ecommerce/SEO consulting business with an ex manager and somehow it went from ecomm consulting into "I need my website redone" this happened a few times and a year + later I'm still unemployed officially but on the side I do a little consulting and website work. I still feel like I have both my feet on either side of the fence, half of my work is pure operations and management and the other is web dev and such. Looking forward to the day where I can be 100% on the software side!!!
Saving fish by writing code! Applications developer in fisheries, specializing in webapps and moving 'enterprise-y' legacy systems to modern agile systems - Email or tweet me if you want to talk!
I used to work e-commerce and was a project manager/operations guy at my previous employer, they went bankrupt and in a weird shift of fate I was held on to help finish the transition. There were two companies smashed together and they needed my help breaking them apart. Spent a lot of time waiting on projects and assignments. (hard to take initiative on a company that doesn't exist anymore)
In my downtime I spent a bunch of time with one of the dev's who was doing the actual split from the code side. She sorta angry mentored me into getting the programming itch and helped me get rid of my rose colored glasses quickly but still see the fun and challenge in coding. As a result I spent the rest of my time there teaching myself to program.
During the slow time I started an Ecommerce/SEO consulting business with an ex manager and somehow it went from ecomm consulting into "I need my website redone" this happened a few times and a year + later I'm still unemployed officially but on the side I do a little consulting and website work. I still feel like I have both my feet on either side of the fence, half of my work is pure operations and management and the other is web dev and such. Looking forward to the day where I can be 100% on the software side!!!
I love how you fell into coding, that's pretty cool!
Good luck on getting into a less ops-focused role, but I've got to say, people who can do both are pretty valuable in my book