I got lucky. I was in a bad place in life and just took a call centre job for some money. I made it known early on that I was interested in Technology so their Technical Support department kept an eye on me. Two positions came available, and funnily enough, both my brother and I got the positions. A few months in a guy who had started developing using Oracle APEX in our team got a position doing it full-time, and wanted to start fostering any interest. I made it clear I was interested and started learning basic stuff like HTML and CSS. Took over the company intranet and starting learning SQL and PL/SQL.
Then I jumped in APEX and got myself a full-time position being a developer doing that. Now I am confident in HTML, CSS, SQL and PL/SQL, adequate in JavaScript/jQuery and looking at starting to learn Python.
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I got lucky. I was in a bad place in life and just took a call centre job for some money. I made it known early on that I was interested in Technology so their Technical Support department kept an eye on me. Two positions came available, and funnily enough, both my brother and I got the positions. A few months in a guy who had started developing using Oracle APEX in our team got a position doing it full-time, and wanted to start fostering any interest. I made it clear I was interested and started learning basic stuff like HTML and CSS. Took over the company intranet and starting learning SQL and PL/SQL.
Then I jumped in APEX and got myself a full-time position being a developer doing that. Now I am confident in HTML, CSS, SQL and PL/SQL, adequate in JavaScript/jQuery and looking at starting to learn Python.