My name is Shawn, and I have been abroad for 10 years -- 5 years in Japan and 5 years in Canada. In 2013, I went to Toyota Technical College and majored in Automobile Technology. With high grades achieved in school, I acquired Japan Student Services Organization Scholarship on my second semester. After graduation, I became an automobile mechanic and worked at Toyota dealership for 1 year. Then I made a decision to immigrate to Canada, as I had been thinking of immigration during my school years. After 2-year study and working for 3 years in Winnipeg, Manitoba which is another province in Canada, I finally received my Permanent Resident Card early this year and moved to Vancouver -- one of the best cities to live in the world.
In my free time, I like reading, listening to music and watching TV shows -- mostly sitcoms like Friends, The Big Bang Theory and so on. Also I enjoy outside activities, like jogging and hiking. I jog everyday and think it is the one of the best ways to relieve stress and challenge myself by setting up harder goals every time.
I am always looking for volunteer opportunities to be involved in the community. In 2017, I assisted with the greeting and direction of guests at special events at University of Manitoba. Back in 2014, I helped with set-up and serving as well as guest entertainment for special events at Toyota Technical College.
After I worked in Canada for 3 years as a car mechanic, I realized that this kind of jobs is not suitable for me because of the different situations between Japan and Canada. So I decided to change my career after I acquired my permanent residency. Then I did a lot of research and it turns out that programming is one of good choices for people who want to change their career like me. Also I watched a few videos about web development, and found out that I am very interested in it and it is suitable for me as well, since I like solving problems and am always willing to learn new things.
Currently, I just took an online course of HTML and CSS, did a lot of code-along projects and finished halfway through a web development bootcamp on Udemy. Then I realized that I need more practice on Javascript, so I decided to pause the boot camp and jump onto another course which is dedicated to Javascript. Now I am working on that course and hope I could grasp a better understanding of Javascript. Although it is getting more and more difficult while moving forward and sometimes I get stuck, but overcoming that is also kind of fun to me and I believe that I will make it through eventually.
My end goal is to find a job in Vancouver, therefore becoming an independent front-end web developer would be my first objective. Since React developers are in very high demand now, I think I will be spending more time on that part.
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