| Canned from my first sales job, during my second sales job spent time on freecodecamp and other sites like that but still was very intimidated by bugs and learning new tools. Did a bootcamp, but luckily was kicked out of bootcamp for failing a test and got my money back. Did a field engineer job where i travled to different factories to help install robots. Still not traditional software engineering. Did a free bootcamp, worked as a teacher at the free bootcamp (most fun ive ever had in my career even though it was only 3 months), Worked as a software dev (really just managing off shore devs) for a big consulting company at a bank for 1.5 years. Low pay, 1 of about 10 American citizens in department of about 5000 technical staff at bank, weird job. After this, finally got a nice dev job which i am happy with. All in all, took about 3 years after i got laid off, until getting to the job I am happy with now. Getting through recruiters in those initial stages is very hard, but after you get professional experience that barrier pretty much disappears. |