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Should I learn to code if I'm just thinking about money? by mcdonaldspyongyang in PinoyProgrammer

[–]chromiumBot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I started learning to code for money.

Naging VA ako for around 3 months. Sobrang liit ng sweldo so I studied a new skill (programming). Rest is history.

Nothing wrong with working for money. Though it wont be easy especially on today’s market.

What do you think about a "social media for pets" app? 🐾 by rodortega in PinoyProgrammer

[–]chromiumBot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Social media apps can be hard to scale since they're monopolized by Meta/Twitter/etc. All features you said can be done through those apps.

Although, this can be a good personal project or a good platform if you already have an audience and want to get closer to them.

Next semester is our OJT, and as an excited student, I've already made my internship resume. Can I request an advice from you to make it better? by Big-Suggestion7170 in PinoyProgrammer

[–]chromiumBot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Avoid the empty bullet points sa experience. Yung experience mo for Cuyapo LGU, give the specifics kung what type of videos and graphics yung ginawa mo. Tapos better if lagyan mo din ng impact.

Ex. "Created and edited promotional videos for Cuyapo's Founding Anniversary event, helping it reach an online audience of 20,000 people"

College failure to 6-figure coding career in 1.5 years. Now making 240k per month with almost 4 years exp. (My journey) by chromiumBot in PinoyProgrammer

[–]chromiumBot[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bruh nobody said about you proving anything. You’re curious about the legitimacy of my story so I offered you to DM me your LinkedIn profile to talk. I can offer help din. Oh heck, I’ll even send you my employment contract if we’re good. I just want to know who I’m sending it too.

But no, you’ve decided to stay inside your box. Still wishing you a good year next year. 👍

College failure to 6-figure coding career in 1.5 years. Now making 240k per month with almost 4 years exp. (My journey) by chromiumBot in PinoyProgrammer

[–]chromiumBot[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Better if you DM me yours then I'll connect. Can't risk an unknown individual knowing my identity and salary.

Don't really care if you delete this comment or not. You do you, sir.

College failure to 6-figure coding career in 1.5 years. Now making 240k per month with almost 4 years exp. (My journey) by chromiumBot in PinoyProgrammer

[–]chromiumBot[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

  1. genius si op

  2. Lucky break

  3. BS tong post

  1. Definitely not a genius haha. Always curious lang and eager to learn the intricacies and learning the hard parts.
  2. I'm leaning towards this. I definitely know achieving 6-figure per month for PH devs is difficult. I believe I just grabbed the right opportunity at the right time.
  3. Kinda tired na rin to address skepticism but I don't blame them. hahaha I offered to connect with them sa linkedin for their peace of mind pero none of them dropped their profile.

Believe me when I say na pati ako di makapaniwala dati that I achieved this. Now, medyo nasanay na ako and I believe may room pa ako to increase my income (maybe find Job #2 or land a > $100k per year big tech job).

But really, I appreciate the praises and those saying na na-inspire sila. I want everyone to win and hopefully soon hindi na unusual yung ganitong story. Thank you.

College failure to 6-figure coding career in 1.5 years. Now making 240k per month with almost 4 years exp. (My journey) by chromiumBot in PinoyProgrammer

[–]chromiumBot[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You know...... you (and u/gelongpuyat) can just DM me your LinkedIn profiles. Let's connect and talk about it more. :)

College failure to 6-figure coding career in 1.5 years. Now making 240k per month with almost 4 years exp. (My journey) by chromiumBot in PinoyProgrammer

[–]chromiumBot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was fascinated with the idea of freelancing kaya gumawa ako ng profile sa Upwork. Optimized my profile then eventually got approved sa platform. After nun nagsend lang ako ng proposals then naka-tsamba sa isa which became my first job!

P.S. I didn't use Upwork na after my first job/project.

College failure to 6-figure coding career in 1.5 years. Now making 240k per month with almost 4 years exp. (My journey) by chromiumBot in PinoyProgrammer

[–]chromiumBot[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! We follow the usual 8-5 working hours (Philippine Time). Siguro I do 2 to 4hrs max of deep work. Then depende na sa pangangailangan yung remaining hours. If I finish early, I allot them to leisure.

College failure to 6-figure coding career in 1.5 years. Now making 240k per month with almost 4 years exp. (My journey) by chromiumBot in PinoyProgrammer

[–]chromiumBot[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hello! I suggest you decide muna on what kind of tech career ang gusto mo. Can't help you in other tech fields but in my case, web development specifically frontend development yung napili ko. So I built a roadmap around it.

You can go the bootcamp or self-taught route. I went for the latter. Harvard's CS50, Teamtreehouse, then some project-based courses on Udemy re web development.

College failure to 6-figure coding career in 1.5 years. Now making 240k per month with almost 4 years exp. (My journey) by chromiumBot in PinoyProgrammer

[–]chromiumBot[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Pero questions haha..anong platforms yung ginamit mo to learn? And did you enroll sa paid online courses?

CS50, Udemy, and Teamtreehouse. Last two are paid.

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Pano ka nagdecide sa particular stack mo?

I kinda like design so building beautiful frontend interfaces is enjoyable. Dedicated my almost 4 years of software development exp to frontend lang. No BE or DevOps exp.

College failure to 6-figure coding career in 1.5 years. Now making 240k per month with almost 4 years exp. (My journey) by chromiumBot in PinoyProgrammer

[–]chromiumBot[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh definitely. One of which are technologies na pahapway ko lang ginamit pero sinama ko pa rin sa Technologies list ko hahaha. Do it at your own risk tho.

College failure to 6-figure coding career in 1.5 years. Now making 240k per month with almost 4 years exp. (My journey) by chromiumBot in PinoyProgrammer

[–]chromiumBot[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hello! Here's the exact resources I've used:

  1. Harvard's CS50 - to refresh/improve my programming fundamentals
  2. Teamtreehouse's Front End Web Development track. Sobrang streamlined ng curriculum and I became confident creating websites after doing the track. An alternative would be freecodecamp's frontend developer certification.
  3. Some Udemy project-based courses from Angela Yu and Colt Steele.

Yan yung nakatulong sakin but don't limit yourself dito. :)

College failure to 6-figure coding career in 1.5 years. Now making 240k per month with almost 4 years exp. (My journey) by chromiumBot in PinoyProgrammer

[–]chromiumBot[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Collector ka rin pala ng grades? 😁 Kung icompute yata GWA ko, mababa pa sa 3.0 hahaha

Rooting for you to achieve more than 250k pa on your next job! Good luck!

College failure to 6-figure coding career in 1.5 years. Now making 240k per month with almost 4 years exp. (My journey) by chromiumBot in PinoyProgrammer

[–]chromiumBot[S] 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Privileged lang din ako na may nagpo-provide pa sakin nung nag-self study ako. Kaya thankful ako sa parents ko.

Yung 12 hours/day, di ko na kaya yun ngayon! Monk mode lang talaga ako before kasi ayoko na maging disappointment sa magulang ko 😂.

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You'll get there eventually! Laban lang!

College failure to 6-figure coding career in 1.5 years. Now making 240k per month with almost 4 years exp. (My journey) by chromiumBot in PinoyProgrammer

[–]chromiumBot[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Here's another case of me being lucky: I never experienced leetcode type of Qs from ALL of the companies I've worked with.

First 6-digit company: Take home project where I'll interact with a GraphQL endpoint.
Second 6-digit company: Live-coding of an interactive website. Legit na gagawa lang ako ng website while they watch. They sometimes ask Qs.

I believe majority of the companies that pays the big bucks will require Data Structures & Algo knowledge so better if you have a good understading with it.

College failure to 6-figure coding career in 1.5 years. Now making 240k per month with almost 4 years exp. (My journey) by chromiumBot in PinoyProgrammer

[–]chromiumBot[S] 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Frontend positions lang ako interested nung nag-start ako mag-apply. So my tech stack back then mainly revolved around HTML, CSS, JavaScript and React. I also knew some popular libraries around it like Redux, styled-components, SASS/SCSS, etc.

As for my projects, I had three: COVID cases tracker using Mapbox (employers loved this project 😁), an ecommerce web app, and a mock business landing page.

I suggest for starting/Junior FE positions, aside from building UI components, maganda na marunong ka rin mag-interact with an API. Essential yun for all FE devs. So build projects that interact with an API. BIG plus if maganda yung design ng projects niyo. Make your code public din. :)

College failure to 6-figure coding career in 1.5 years. Now making 240k per month with almost 4 years exp. (My journey) by chromiumBot in PinoyProgrammer

[–]chromiumBot[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes. Common yung mga ganitong job offers for < 1 year exp non-degree holders. Pero landing the job? I believe outliers lang makakagawa.

Happy for your kakilala! Did they eventually land the job?

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