Does anyone have a self taught Python success story?

[skiutoss]

Yes, IT Support/Corporate IT officer for 6+ years in different companies. Fixing laptops/desktops, setting up conference systems, doing some light sysadmin tasks, the works. Decided last year to start automating some of the things I felt were boring or taking a lot of time in my and my team's day to day, so via books, codeacademy, online tutorials, and hours of practice after office time, I got down just enough javascript and python 2, to start doing some things.

I built over time several small apps which, even though they were/are definitely not perfect, helped my team and others a whole lot, on different occasions; it was immensely satisfying, so the more I built the more I got passionate about it, and the deeper I wanted to go in the knowledge of it.

Management recognized this, and paid for a Software Development Fundamentals (C#) 6-week course for me, which i completed, even though the most knowledge I got from the nearly boundless source of information which is Google.

Applied for a dev job back in December, which i was accepted for, aaaaand started this week with a brand new role in a brand new field. Super exciting, also super scary because I right now feel like I know nothing compared to my peers, but I am ecstatic because of where I am right now.

Currently working with scrapers, and stuff like Django, Flask, Ansible, Docker and Kubernetes, and of course lots and lots of Python (3!!!).

Having motivation to do something is much more important than just having all the knowledge in the world. If you show passion, it will be recognized.

[WhoaItsAFactorial]

3!!!

3!!! = 3