I have couple of years doing web development. And right now im struggling with freelance jobs. Im newbie and im learning a lot every day and growing my profile and my reputation. But every day that thought of "you are not ready yet" its constantly in my head.
I have no CS background but i have a lot of hours of self thought learning. That is other think that is constantly in my head "without a degree you wont get a good job in this".
I have to say that some days i wake up like "Why im doing this if you are seeing that its not working" but after that i thought about all the hours i invested and all the stuffs that i know right now and that ease the day.
I really want to know how you fight against this feeling thanks! 😁.
PS: I surely had a lot of mistakes translating this. I speak Spanish jeje. Thats another "feature" that im working on jeje.
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Stick to it. With experience it gets netter. Also freelancing seems a challenge for somebody new maybe try to work as an employee and get some experience.
Yes, I'm on that way jeje. Right now I'm looking for a dev role job. I'm improving my knowledge to get a dev role soon. But here is when the impostor syndrome comes 👻.
I'm getting a few bucks working as a freelancer. I know it's not the best way to learn if I want to get a dev role, but it's "experience" I think 🤷.
But soon I'll get an job as a developer. I hope 🥲
I'm sure you will get there. What kind of projects are you doing? And what kind of technologies are you working with?
I'm most experienced with the MERN stack in resume.
In more detail I have knowledge in:
React:
React router Dom, Redux, hooks(state, effect, ref, Context, memo, callback), custom hooks, React-Bootstrap, next and a lot of other things that I don't remember the name of xd.
Node and Express:
Cli tools development, express, express validator, ORM(Mongoose, Sequalize), storage, validations, REST API, Basic security, Bcrypt, hashing and a lot more.
Tech:
Html, css, Javascript, responsive design, Bootstrap, Material UI, git, Github, npm/yarn, figma, canvas and a lot of things more e.e
Added to that, clean code, clean architecture, design patterns I'm React and Node.
I touched other techs like VUE, ANGULAR, Deno, PHP, Java and more, but I'm talking about the techs that I have knowledge and experience working with.
Ahjjj. I almost forgot, right now I'm learning Solidity for the Web3 layer jeje
Looks really solid. What did you try to find a Job?
First, I do a little research about the company that is posting a job offer. After that, I customize a special CV for that interprise using the keywords of the offer and the branding colors etc.
I'm improving my portfolio, adding the best projects I have done, but before I clean it up the project first. Adding some redness and improving my typos and comments before adding it to my portfolio.
Right now I'm trying freelancing and trying to make improves in my branding strategy in social media. Start blogging and things like that.
When I finish a project I publish it and tell my colleagues and ex partners to test it and review it.
That's in general What am I doing to land a job.
Have you any advice? Or Improvement? 🥴
I know I have a difficulty that is my lack of cs or bachelor background. But I like the challenges jeje. I'll keep pushing and improving every day until I land my job and after I'll keep it too
Do you have linked-in profile or on any relevant spanish Sites? So that head hunters are able to find you? I'm on a german site and get regular requests. The head hunters are searching keyword based. So with the right skills listed. Who knows.
My second tipp would be Facebook groups. Im in a few german ons and my impression is that stuff can happen there to.
I have my linkedin profile in spanish im living in spain by the way. I have to upload my english profile there too. And i don`t use facebook since 2015 i think jeje but i know what you are telling me. There is amazing groups in other platforms where i can try that too. i took your advice i will try that too. Thanks mate! 😁
You are welcome!