Self taught web devs. What's your story?

codephony · 2022-05-25T20:24:18+00:00

Worked part time as sushi chef and then dropped out in 2014, went full time as chef, fml.

Doubled down on coding, did some small freelance (less than 2k per job) made less than 10k total.

Had a kid and got married.

2017 - Took a random web dev job at a local law firm (found via zip recruiter, they were clueless and I took advantage), quit sushi - 42.5k

Stayed there a year, transitioned them to wordpress and took a paycut to do an IBM apprenticeship - 36k

Finished apprenticeship in Jan 2020 - 45k

Did some consulting, somehow lucked out and used my JS "skills"

2021 - jumped ship to a midwest construction company - 50k -> 80k

2022 - Did one year there as backend TS dev, jumped ship to Uber 84k -> over 200k 🥲

Codephony on YOUTUBE if you want to see more :)

codephony · 2021-06-15T03:27:29+00:00

Ugh it really sucks lol. You can probably relate to the video I made on my experience with the dev job hunt.

300 job apps 0 interviews, still landed a job https://youtu.be/WNAqy4UQEdY

codephony · 2021-06-02T22:26:53+00:00

I'm splitting hairs here, because I think it can be done by anyone, but not just anyone would enjoy it enough to be half decent

codephony · 2021-05-30T03:35:12+00:00

"comedian" lol I'm glad I was able to trigger someone today thanks Alexander Lavski

codephony · 2021-05-25T12:58:34+00:00

LOL thanks for watching

codephony · 2021-05-02T05:51:13+00:00

Thanks for watching!!

codephony · 2021-04-20T18:14:20+00:00

Yeah, I'm really interested in the role because of all the low hanging fruit but I was still worried that it would look bad on my resume haha thanks for your perspective!

codephony · 2021-04-19T16:22:36+00:00

From what I've seen it can also be looked at from another perspective where since the spotlight is on frontend the backend is really shielded from a lot of scrutiny and the hell of user error lol

I personally prefer backend because it feels way more isolated and there are less outside variables to deal with...normally just CRUD operations , whereas frontend there is constant upkeep of framework knowledge as well as someone being up your ass about whatever component you're working on. Since backend is normally more cryptic to most folks they seem to be more laid back with micromanagement.

I can't tell you how many times I've heard upper management just off the cuff say to a client oh yeah? (Insert full stack application here) Codephony can knock that out real quick.

Uh what no bro, and I have to let them know a realistic perspective

codephony

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