My Developer Journey: Bullet list Edition

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Listening to the latest ShopTalkShow, and Chris and Dave got on the topic of Developer Journey.

Which got me thinking, that my journey was a long winding adventure.

2006-2010

  • Building out HTML/CSS Myspace pages for my bands
    • nobody told me I could make money doing this!

2010-2013

  • Went to College for Electrical Engineering
  • Wanted to build guitar gear
  • Learned C
  • Graduated with an Associate in Electrical Engineering Technology Degree

2014-2017

  • Started Adult life
  • Line cook at Nectars (where Phish got famous)
  • Moved to be with now wife
  • Bus builder at Bus Factory
  • Finishing Technician at The Chandelier factory
  • Janitor at Hospital
    • able to listen to podcasts during my whole shift
  • Discovered FreeCodeCamp on CodeNewbies Podcast
  • Discovered ShopTalkShow
  • Started building websites and sharing learnings on Twitter

2018-2020

  • Started Treehouse's Tech Degree Program (sponsored by the CEO of Treehouse)
  • Started CoderDads community in 2019
  • Started a new job at the hospital in the Emergency room doing Patient Registration
  • Tech Interviewing
  • Finished Tech Degree in March 2020
  • Pandemic Working in ER

2020-2022

  • Freelancing and building
  • Interviewing and networking tons
  • Get into a final round interview with a HUGE commerce company (rejected)
  • I almost give up on getting into tech
  • Kelly Vaughn reaches out about her startup
  • Accept the Job offer from Kelly.
  • Start working from Home
  • Startup Hard
  • Role reduced
  • Dave Rupert reaches out about Luro
  • 2 weeks from reduction to job offer
  • put 6 months of deep work into Luro
  • Time at Luro ends
  • Interview at places where I have to pinch myself because of the salary.

2023

  • Start thinking about going back to my ER job
  • About to apply for an old job. Jeremiah Prummer calls me with a job offer
  • Rest is history

I have been working at KnoCommerce for 2 years as of last week! It's been fun and building some really exciting and powerful things!

It's been a wild ride, with more rejections than I can count. I'm glad I never started counting rejections.

Can't wait to be more in-depth about my journey from here on out.

SHOPTALKSHOW FOREVER!!!