I was still in (British) college (16-18 y/o), when I should've been learning my A-Level subjects Biology, Chemistry, Physics in Maths - I took up a very junior job at my brother's web consulting company.
I actually did pretty badly in my exams and my results could barely get me into a university, so I didn't bother applying, which means I had to take a gap year. In my second year of college, I retook all of the exams + did the A2 exams and got really average results (CCC). That September, I applied for university whilst working.
I was working 2 part time jobs in my gap year. 4 Days interning as an iOS developer for a well known investment firm, then the other 3 days doing Web dev (split between my evenings and weekends). Needless to say, I was really, really, extremely overworked.
Combined with my results and experience, I got a place at university which normally would require ABB/AAB. I got an offer to join as a junior iOS dev at the fintech place, as well as an offer elsewhere as a junior fullstack dev which offered more, so I took it. I deferred my university entry to sept. 2018.
So, here I am, writing this reply, and wondering if I should ever go to university now at all or continue developing. It's not a bad situation to be in :^)
I was still in (British) college (16-18 y/o), when I should've been learning my A-Level subjects Biology, Chemistry, Physics in Maths - I took up a very junior job at my brother's web consulting company.
I actually did pretty badly in my exams and my results could barely get me into a university, so I didn't bother applying, which means I had to take a gap year. In my second year of college, I retook all of the exams + did the A2 exams and got really average results (CCC). That September, I applied for university whilst working.
I was working 2 part time jobs in my gap year. 4 Days interning as an iOS developer for a well known investment firm, then the other 3 days doing Web dev (split between my evenings and weekends). Needless to say, I was really, really, extremely overworked.
Combined with my results and experience, I got a place at university which normally would require ABB/AAB. I got an offer to join as a junior iOS dev at the fintech place, as well as an offer elsewhere as a junior fullstack dev which offered more, so I took it. I deferred my university entry to sept. 2018.
So, here I am, writing this reply, and wondering if I should ever go to university now at all or continue developing. It's not a bad situation to be in :^)
Nice I think a lot of people in the tech field are self taught developers