I'm the CTO of international video agency Wooshii and I run an educational media brand called Skill Pathway. I also occasionally chat to people on my podcast, The Learning Developers Podcast.
That's awesome Brian!!! Best of luck with your interview next week. We have a couple of posts in this series, I think - you might want to check them out as there's some tips that might be helpful to you.
Some of our mentors here have worked as PC Techs in many different capacities, it's an obvious transition and there's (in our opinion) more fun to be had over here! :)
It sounds like you're pretty serious on the job side of things, and its a great idea to start out in employment as your chances of getting into a company vs getting good freelance gigs are much better.
Something you might want to consider, if you're more frontend focused, is the Shopify Parner Program. E-Commerce is big business right now, which is great for freelancers as one of the largest platforms for it in the world (Shopify) has a program which allows you access to freelance contracts at no price.
You just need to learn their proprietary templating engine (which is dog simple if you're a front-end already), build a few projects to get skilled with it, get set up with them and you're good to go.
For an average of $10k per project according to them, it's worth a try.
Full disclosure: we are in no way affiliated with Shopify! It's just that one of our guys has made a lot through freelancing and selling templates and know they're really supportive with it.
Well! That's pretty awesome. I will check it out the other articles in the series and Shopify for sure. Thank you so very much for the support and the tip.
I'm the CTO of international video agency Wooshii and I run an educational media brand called Skill Pathway. I also occasionally chat to people on my podcast, The Learning Developers Podcast.
That's awesome Brian!!! Best of luck with your interview next week. We have a couple of posts in this series, I think - you might want to check them out as there's some tips that might be helpful to you.
Some of our mentors here have worked as PC Techs in many different capacities, it's an obvious transition and there's (in our opinion) more fun to be had over here! :)
It sounds like you're pretty serious on the job side of things, and its a great idea to start out in employment as your chances of getting into a company vs getting good freelance gigs are much better.
Something you might want to consider, if you're more frontend focused, is the Shopify Parner Program. E-Commerce is big business right now, which is great for freelancers as one of the largest platforms for it in the world (Shopify) has a program which allows you access to freelance contracts at no price.
You just need to learn their proprietary templating engine (which is dog simple if you're a front-end already), build a few projects to get skilled with it, get set up with them and you're good to go.
For an average of $10k per project according to them, it's worth a try.
Full disclosure: we are in no way affiliated with Shopify! It's just that one of our guys has made a lot through freelancing and selling templates and know they're really supportive with it.
Have a great day Brian!
Well! That's pretty awesome. I will check it out the other articles in the series and Shopify for sure. Thank you so very much for the support and the tip.
You're super welcome, thanks for reading our content!
Here's the link to their partner program: shopify.co.uk/partners/jobs/freelance