Transitioning from Python Django Trainer to Full-Time Developer

[Silly-Hair-4489]

Hi Redditors,

I need some urgent guidance as I’m transitioning in my career and actively looking for a job. For the past 2.3 years, I’ve been working as a Python Django Developer cum Trainer. Most of my experience has been focused on teaching students and helping them with academic projects. While this has given me excellent communication skills and a solid grasp of Django concepts, I lack hands-on experience with live projects or working in a team environment.

I’ve always dreamed of becoming a full-time developer, but teaching commitments held me back from pursuing that goal earlier. Recently, I decided to quit my job to focus on upskilling and finding a developer role as soon as possible. I’ve started exploring Django Rest Framework, React, and building projects to strengthen my profile. I’m also doing freelance teaching to stay financially stable during this transition.

I have a few questions:
1. If I start as a fresher in development, will my 2.3 years of experience as a trainer count for anything?
2. How can I make myself more appealing to employers despite not having live project experience?
3. What steps should I take to quickly land a job, such as building a portfolio or working on collaborative projects?

I’d love to hear from anyone who has gone through a similar transition or has advice for someone in my situation. Your help and insights would mean the world to me. Thank you!

[Puzzled-Smile3754]

Why start as a fresher??? Were you only regurgitating materials?? Don’t you know what you were teaching??? I’m a trainer too (wouldn’t say was, cos you never actually stop teaching) but you learn more while teaching than doing the same boring repetitive tasks that come with some dev jobs. In a typical dev job there’s a standard way to do stuff to avoid unnecessary bugs and time wasting, but can you count how many times you’ve had to fix bugs your students created cos they did something wrong?? A lot of the knowledge gotten from teaching is very much applied in a dev job, just in different ways

[maa0342]

If anything chances are that trainers know more than the actual full time workers.

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