This came from a pretty unfriendly person on Reddit after I went to /r/learnprogramming seeking advice on how I could make an efficient path for myself and land a job without any college. I was 25 at the time, had a 1 year old, and I was working full time at Walmart. I had started a semester of college, but it just proved to be a waste of money because I didn't really have the time to balance a full load of classes while also working and taking care of my daughter, nor did I have the patience to spend the next several years in college because I'd only be able to take a few classes at a time.
I was told that I wouldn't make it without the degree and to just accept that I'd made the choice to have kids and I should instead just focus on maybe moving up at Walmart and abandoning the idea of being a developer.
Turns out that's not true at all, and within 6 months of that conversation, I had gone from basic HTML knowledge, to landing my first dev job and doubling my salary. Less than a year after that, I had tripled my original salary after making another switch to a higher paying front end job.
I couldn't be happier, and I'm still working just as hard as I did back then to grow as a developer. (:
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This came from a pretty unfriendly person on Reddit after I went to /r/learnprogramming seeking advice on how I could make an efficient path for myself and land a job without any college. I was 25 at the time, had a 1 year old, and I was working full time at Walmart. I had started a semester of college, but it just proved to be a waste of money because I didn't really have the time to balance a full load of classes while also working and taking care of my daughter, nor did I have the patience to spend the next several years in college because I'd only be able to take a few classes at a time.
I was told that I wouldn't make it without the degree and to just accept that I'd made the choice to have kids and I should instead just focus on maybe moving up at Walmart and abandoning the idea of being a developer.
Turns out that's not true at all, and within 6 months of that conversation, I had gone from basic HTML knowledge, to landing my first dev job and doubling my salary. Less than a year after that, I had tripled my original salary after making another switch to a higher paying front end job.
I couldn't be happier, and I'm still working just as hard as I did back then to grow as a developer. (: