How these six self-taught developers got jobs
Pete has interviewed hundreds of self-taught developers for his website, NoCSDegree. In this episode, he shares his top 6 stories that YOU Can learn from to make money as an employee, freelancer, or entrepreneur (Pete covers all 3)!
June 8, 202129m 9s
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Show Notes
Pete has interviewed hundreds of self-taught developers for his website, NoCSDegree. In this episode, he shares his top 6 stories that YOU Can learn from to make money as an employee, freelancer, or entrepreneur (Pete covers all 3)
Timestamps
- 00:00 Introduction
- 02:00 How Beatrice used a meetup to advance their career
- 07:15 Arvid Kahl founded a $55K/month business
- 09:45 Please remember to subscribe and share the episode 😇
- 10:15 Aldhair went from cruise ship worker to developer in 5 months with Scrimba
- 12:32 Do you need to meet 100% of the requirements to apply for a job (nah)
- 15:54 Josy got a remote job as a junior dev 🎉
- 18:26 Richard earned $15k a month at just 22 from a rural area with low living costs
- 23:21 Tae'lur from waitress to developer
- 26:22 What do al these developers have in common?
- 28:05 Outro and thanks
Links
- Check out Pete
- Links from the episode
- Getting a developer apprenticeship with a sociology degree (Beatrice)
- Learning to code with no CS degree and making $55k a month (Arvid Kahl)
- Covid career change - from cruise ship cleaner to developer (Aldhair)
- Josy learned coding and now has a remote developer job (Josy)
- From Waitress to Software Developer in 8 months (Tae'lur)
- This 22 year old self-taught PHP developer earns $15k a month and lives in an Austrian farmhouse (Richard)
Topics
Junior DevelopersSoftware DevelopmentProgramming