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From Flight Attendant to Software Developer

Kapehe on March 06, 2019

From 36,000ft Imagine this, you get to travel the world, you get to drink authentic Colombian coffee in Cartagena and swim in the beauti...
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Gift Egwuenu

This is amazing! Your story is really inspiring 🔥

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Jaden Goodwin • Edited

Great article! I am sure dev mountain will reach out to get that story! It was great being a part of your dev mountain experience! I have had a great story myself! I got a job at Sharendipity, an app on the app store to share your things. I then moved over to backcountry.com last october and was in charge of creating landing pages and ads for most of the things you see go live on the site. I am now at a great company called Blip that is a small startup that is getting huge doing electronic billboard advertising. I am excited to set my roots here for a while!
HAHA i laughed out loud at the 'mechanincal keyboards are the best' part! I myself bought a cheap mechanical keyboard from Velocifire made for mac computers
velocifiretech.com/product/velocif...
Its a great first keyboard, and you can buy $10 keycaps from ebay to customize it ;) Also it has cherry brown switches which are the best keyswitch!

Anyway congrats on the successes you have had and continue to have! Coding is a continually growing field and its amazing how fast you can excel! I couldn't be where i am today in a different field with 3 years of experience!

-Jaden

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Kapehe

Jaden! We really had a great time at DevMountain. Our cohort was amazing! I have enjoyed watching your journey as well (as best as I can from LinkedIn, lol!). I love seeing all of us succeed!

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Fabio Rosado

Hello Sarah great article and it rang to me because I’m a flight attendant as well and hope to do the switch you did 😀

Did you kept working on projects or writing and meet-ups was what really helped you? I have been focusing more on my projects and kind of been slacking on writing 😬

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Kapehe

Making the switch is hard but worth it! At the beginning, it was all about learning code and building projects. It wasn't until I graduated from my bootcamp that I started focusing on the meetups and writing part. 😀

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Xing Wang

Nice, didn't know Auth0 have an office in Las Vegas.
We at moesif.com are a happy customer of Auth0.
A lot of the engineer we talked to seems are all in Argentina, are most of your team in Argentina?

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Kapehe

We have headquarters in Bellevue, Washington as well as Buenos Aires, Argentina and others! There's no office in Las Vegas, but being a heavily remote based company, I am one of three in the Las Vegas area that works remotely for Auth0.

Thanks for reading! And thanks for being an Auth0 customer! We love our customers! :)

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John Papa

Great story of your journey. Thanks for sharing and good luck!

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Chris Sev

Well deserved success! To the moon!

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Ifeanyi Fredrick Okwuobi

Wonderful article, Teacher, I was almost going crazy yesterday learning to build a product landing page 😁😁😁... This words encased in gold has fired me to continue charging forward thanks a lot and I know now, Nothing is ever easy but with determination and a little luck there is nothing you can't do

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Sarocha sriwong

Your story is interesting. I am a software engineer and your old job is my dream job. I am considering to try in flight attendant. I am confused which one is fit for me. 😅 Can you shared more about income between software engineers and flight attendant? Thank you in advance

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Paul Ryan

Wow, great read. Thanks for sharing

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Jo

Great story! Whenever I'm flying I think how nice it must be to be flight attendant, except when descending. The pain in my ears dissuade me and I continue coding lol

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Amara Graham

Thanks for sharing your incredible journey so far!

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rhymes

What a great story and love your energy! Thanks for sharing!

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0xAirdropfarmer

really inspire for many self taught

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Chidinma.

Awesome story 👏🏿👏🏿 Thanks for sharing!

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Jaime Rios

Neat, thanks for sharing your story.I know there is some luck factor but most results come from hard work and generosity, thanks for daring to take the leap and sharing your story with us.

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Nick Taylor

Great story and awesome that you were able to make the transition to web dev. Looking forward to your next post!

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Santosh Yadav

Amazing journey Kapehe, excited to meet you at #ngIndia.

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Samuel Olaegbe

Thank you for sharing your story 🧡

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Vimalkumar Natarajan

This is an Incredible Journey. I couldn't help but laugh when I read this "Stay far away from the master branch".

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Liran Tal

Inspiring! Keep it up

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Lanre Fagbeyiro

This is inspiring. Thank you ❤

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Ahmad Awais ⚡️

Congratulations on your journey. Glad to see you transition to programming. 👍👌👋

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Cherif Bouchelaghem

Awesome! From real clouds to virtual clouds!