Chris Hawkes, a once 28-year-old college dropout and a truck driver, is now a senior developer in Geico. Coding seems to be one of the fields where people can start a career late in their lives.
That's mostly because it's one of those fields whose skillsets you can actually learn on your own and online. You don't' need to go to school anymore to learn coding. Just follow some tutorials online, build your own projects, and learn on your own.
@@dr6770 All it takes is motivation and interest, anything can be learnt online via self-learning but it takes a huge amount of constant attention and zeal to achieve it. Although, it's a simple roadmap to follow, however majority of the people fail to reach the end goal. The reason why one should go to a school is because it's hard to deviate from the goal and when you meetup with other like minded souls, share a common concensus, learn n practice together, you become more productive and practical. There are people who gets trapped into the Tutorial loop, keep on watching one after one video and never hand-coding to solve problems, that's one of the big disadvantages to learn from a pre-recorded video where you can not ask questions to the tutor right away to clear your fundamental doubts. Also, most of the high paying jobs and positions ask for a Bachelor's degree anyway.
Bootcamp is a place where they will teach you everything you need to know within a few weeks. The course will probably conclude with one or two projects over a period of a week or two. But to get a job, the student who completes the Bootcamp has to work on a range of projects of his or her own choice to impress the recruiter. Most often it does not happen.
Just means you have an unique life story, as we all should. We shouldn't feel bad for NOT being part of the "collective" of manufactured, cloned identities presented to us to choose from. Resistance is NOT futile!
Evangelos Sarantis Hi! I’m still in China. I will start boot camp in Feb. I’m planning to take a udemy and a codecademy beforehand. Also, I was told that code camps don’t cover algorithms and structures that are usually covered in interviews. So I’m planning to study that as well. I want to make sure I’m fully prepared and competent enough to get a job.
I'm 40 years old, degree qualified mechanical engineer. I have a wife and 2 kids and am now a coding student. 8 months in. I seriously wish I had started coding some 10 to 15 years ago. I'm still fresh on my journey but man, I cannot recommend it enough. Your story is truly inspirational. Well done for what you did. Respect. As they say, keep on keeping on.
@@aaronkenney_17 Cheers. Buy a thick book for server development (I recommend Python). Buy a thick book for Frontend Dev. Learn JS by its self then a framework. Go through them over 6 months. The next 6 months make a large project by yourself. Go Freelance and try to get projects then get it made off shore (vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos).
I was an English teacher, now I am learning web development, but going down the university path, I am a second year 29 year old I.T. student, who is choosing a web development major.
I am a Mechanical engineering degree holder(I don't call myself a mech engineer because I don't have much knowledge about my degree). It's been 4 years since my engineering completed yet haven't been employed. I am interested in coding and learned some languages and technologies. But sadly if you have a career gap that too this huge then one is bound to be doomed at least in my country with massive population . Depression and loneliness taking a toll on my health. But watching these kind of motivational videos of strong people and their journey gives a tiny ray of hope that maybe my life will change and I will be able to show my face to my friends and family. Thank you brother
Hey Shubham, could you tell me about your current situation. Has it been improved or not? I think we should talk, maybe you could find a solution or a ray of hope.
Being a broke English teacher in Italy, stuck in a limbo, I decided to go through the data analytics path which eventually brought me to learning python from scratch. A couple of weeks in, I find your journey highly motivating. As a non native speaker I’ve been brushed off by language schools and have decided not to be a part of an industry which discriminates based on your origins. Glad you found the right path in your life!
I have been stuck in limbo for 3 yrs after quiting my telecom help desk job, couldn't enrol to advance my education from a 3 yr diploma in aero electronics to a something Bsc , but now I just have to. Hopefully I decide between data analystics, database administration or network engineer( network eng will compliment my 5 yr experience as helpdesk tech but not much room for growth). What do you think about my predicament, which path would you take and congratulations and good luck on your data analystics journey
Some folks feel the need to have an hour video without saying much in regards to this topic. This 6 minute video is genuine and to the point and makes a lot of sense.
I've been a certified public school English teacher for 11 years, and I'm attempting to move into this career. I know it's going to be difficult, but I'm willing to learn. Thanks you for your video. It gives me encouragement!
My daughter became ESL certified but she is doing well now as a copywriter. She was the editor of her high school newspaper and won several awards for her writing. BTW, I encouraged my daughters to take programming and engineering classes in high school. Recruiters will literally fight each other to hire female engineers. Unfortunately, if you're a white male, you'll go to the end of the hiring list of large companies. Diversity is another word for legalized discrimination against white males.
Awesome video. I worked in Vietnam for 3 years as a teacher. I'm trying to break into coding now. You're videos are a great inspiration! Keep them coming!
Man! I’m getting inspired by your story! I hope someday i can meet you and say thank you in the future once i got to start studying coding while working. Thanks a lot for having a youtube video like this. God bless you more! I hope I can do the same motivation and laser focus as you are. Again thank you even i haven’t started it
I’m 37 and reaching my breaking point... pandemic hit hard, I’m broke and pretty much giving up on everything... things are starting to look pretty bad... looking for a way out. Came across your vid... maybe it will help me since I used to have an interest in coding... maybe it’s no too late. Thank you for that.
thank you so much for this video! I'm an English teacher currently. I can totally relate to what you've been through. Even though I love teaching, I don't like that fact that I can't show what I have done over the past 10 years. The work you've put your time and energy into leaves as soon as the student graduates from your school. That's why I've been learning programming and I can't wait to get to where you are right now.
Thanks, this pretty motivating! It's crazy to stumble on a TH-cam video that I can relate to--except the last part of course. I'm a college student, started CS50 course two months ago after seeing a Reddit comment. HTML is the only thing I'm familiar with and I'm slacking at the moment after watching the Week 2 and trying to solve the problems. I'm glad everything worked great for you. I'll keep my eyes peeled on your channel.
Thank you, buddy, inspiring story. It is always to nurture our spirits with people that have struggled and persist and want just the best for others; I love that in people. I wish you tons of happiness. Keep inspiring people.
Wow I can't believe there are so many of us with the same path. Business Management to Corporate to ESL Online Nomad to Learning Code! Thanks for being straight to the point.. great content.
Very Inspirational. Not teaching english but currently in Chiang Mai backpacking SE Asia after quitting Big 4 accounting. Will pound the learning path when I get back to the states and refer to your videos for the reminder. Thanks again for sharing your story.
Thank you for your story and video Aaron. Your insight was awesome. Besides saying thank you, also wanted to say great job! Your perseverance is awesome!
The real key of success is not really about dreaming big because everyone can do that, but it's how big your desire to get out of your own misery & desperation is to push you to action.
I was a business finance major, English teacher in Asia, currently in HCMC. I have survived 3 years in Vietnam and 3 years in China. Never seen someone with such same experience as me. Since covid been learning video game programing with c#, but still years away from getting a full time job I fear. So decided to start the Odin Project.
Troi oi! I'm an American teaching in Saigon as well. Same experiences. 6 million dong nouvo 2 motorbike > gas line broke sprayed everywhere. pushing it broke down in the heat & in floods. My English center has me driving all over the city > district 11 one day district 2 the next. Decided I can't do this for much longer. Cut my hours to a bare minimum to focus on studying IT/Programming. I'm currently about 2 months deep in webdev stuff focusing on React, bought Stephen Grider's udemy course. I'm highly motivated, being broke, screaming kids, crazy traffic, and my love for learning helps a lot. Stumbling upon your video by total accident really shows me I'm on the right path. It's so nice to see someone in a similar position succeed. I was also here in Saigon when you were here so it's possible we've crossed paths. I'm glad I've found this video, I've watched it multiple times. Thanks!
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing your video and personal experience of becoming a developer. Really needed a video to inspire me again and to keep going and learning. Thought of giving up but your video gave me more hope.. thank you!!
I love how realistic and honest and helpful this is. Too often people with conflicts of interest are trying to spin and manipulate the info they give to you for obvious reasons, and you end up with very polluted and false information on top of false hopes and being unprepared for reality.
Thank you for this information Aaron. I am currently 23 and I am going to school for Computer Programming and taking a Udemy course for Java, it's 75 hours long and I am learning so much. Just know that we all appreciate the information you are giving us! Keep up the great work man!
my story: psychology major to English teacher to frontend dev :) I've been working as a programmer for over 5 years and I really like it especially at my current job
Love your video and story, and can relate to most of your past on a personal level. Worked in China in ESL for many years, had COVID fucking everything up, and since then avidly getting into coding. Looking to get into a physical bootcamp (not an online one) upon re-opening of institutions to get to know the people and establish a network. Meanwhile, still traveling the shit out of Asia as we speak right now while doing Codecademy & Codewars (thanks to your advice). Presently where you've currently reached in life is still a milestone for me. Every single one of your video helps! Thanks for the presentation.
"if you organize anything as a process, something that you chip away at overtime, you can do...another words its just a numbers game, put in the time and you can do it" Let this sink in.
For me it reminds me on how I set a goal of doing something 100 times before I quit. For example, stuck on a boss on a game? 99% you'll beat that guy before 100 attempts(depending on how hard the game is).
Loved your story! I'm finishing off a code school right now and feel hopeless about job prospects. Thanks for the helpful tips on finding your job I'll use them for my job search too.
Hi. I don't usually leave comments. I wanted to thank you for sharing your journey with everyone. One of your other videos (Fastest Way to Become a Software Developer) was one of the videos that I watched before deciding to give this another shot. That was about 5 months ago. I had some very important takeaways from that video that have helped shape my journey so far. I was a truck driver at the time. I knew I had to get out of that job. I left trucking about 2 months ago to have more study time. Been studying pretty intensively and starting to feel more confident. Like you, I also took CS50 years ago. The first week was awesome. I quit after I felt I couldn't grasp it. I wish I knew back then that was normal. I'll have to give you another update when I make more progress!
Psych Major/Ex-DJ now current English teacher in South Korea waking up early every morning and doing Codeacademy before school. I’m hoping to move somewhere cheap with my savings (notwithstanding COVID19 restrictions ) next year to go into a cave and continue ‘chipping away” as you say. Thanks as well for the article suggestion Haseebq.com - his whole website is so detailed and informative. Keep up the great work dude! x
Cannot tell how blessed I am stumbling into your videos. Thank you!!!!! I'm a support manager (been one for years) and seems father time is catching up as I no longer desire my current role, and looking into coding. Just want to be an individual contributor. :)
Do you know what I love about this video besides the awesome content? The length. Yup, the length of the video. Unlike others who have 15+ minutes that you barely get what they’re trying to say. Thanks for keeping this short and informative.
I’m taking a bit of a longer route, but I was also an English teacher in Korea. Came back to the states to teach at a public school and I just recently enrolled in a boot camp. Looking forward to this career change. Thanks for sharing! Hope you’re doing well.
I like how you just casually name drop references to learning resources. I end up pausing and looking them up. I have a dev job, but I'm always looking to learn more.
I'm stunned at how similar your story is to mine. I majored in business and worked for a financial institution. Now, I'm teaching English in HCMC, and starting to work towards a job in tech. Thanks for sharing your story. It's extremely encouraging, but doesn't make any false promises about things being easy.
Wow, I'm in the same boat as well! Joined a bootcamp after many years abroad teaching English. I just graduated and you're so right about the slacking off. There's still a lot of preparation to do before I start the job search.
Superb story, really well told. Thanks, Aaron. I just completed an IBM AI Applied Professional Cert (on Coursera). Starting to work on an online portfolio. Thanks for the Odin Project tip.
I want to tell you thank you for sharing your story. I left college twice due to bad grades, pursued a degree in mass communications, and will graduate next week with honors. Yet I am broke, in debt, no job, and am finding it incredibly difficult to find a job in my field. I relate to your struggles. If there’s one thing I’ve learned about anything is...to keep moving forward. I’m starting my journey to learn software development and I’m hoping for the best. Thank you for posting your videos and sharing your knowledge. It helps people like me believe that there is a reason for this struggle. Good will come if you just keep pushing forward.
That's one of the beauty of software community, almost every learning resources costs pennies, community is pretty big and most importantly everyone is welcomed, no age, degree bar unlike any so called professional careers like in law or medicine. Software developers are the best creatures contributing to humanity, we run the fking internet baby
Thanks for your awesome story!! I’ve been trying to get my burned out English teacher wife into Web Development, I know she would be awesome at it!! The tech industry was my “way out” of crappy jobs and I feel it has the best bang for the buck!
I can't believe I found this channel! I just came back to the US after teaching in Japan for 4 years. I'm hoping to enter the job market in a few months.
There's a strong similarity between the first half of your story and my life at the moment. I'm an Egyptian fresh graduate with a B.A degree in English Language. I've also started out thinking about shifting to a career in the tech industry about a year ago, and my first step was CS50. I've also kinda found it too difficult and quit. But then again, I've tried more than once to get back to learning, and I'm currently still a complete beginner. My life is kinda a mess right now and I really hope to shift my (English teaching) career (or to even not have to start it). Thank you Aaron for sharing your story; I most certainly needed to hear this atm. However, I kinda hope that the end of my story is a happy ending.
Glad I ran into you! I have a finance BS and want to get into CS. I want to learn and work with having a tool set. Your story is inspiring me, I've been so nervous that doing this by self-taught might not be possible.
very valuable video...I can definitely relate. Thank you for making this. It would be very interesting if you could tell us more about your process (maybe you have in another video?)
Wow. I'm a Vietnamese living in Ho Chi Minh City now. I'm so glad that I discovered your channel while searching for videos on how to become a software engineer. Listening to your story really inspired me to keep studying and working harder everyday to achieve my goal of becoming a software engineer. I lost my job due to Covid 9 months ago and I'm nearly broke but luckily I still have a little saving to buy a laptop and to pay for the courses that you recommended on Udemy. I spend all my free time everyday to study in order to speed up the process so that I can find a job as soon as possible. Great to know that you used to teach English in my city, and I feel very motivated to work harder and study harder to rise above all the failures, difficulties, and barriers in life and finally achieve success like you did! Thank you very much!
That's such an inspiring story! I'm an English teacher in Korea. I just started looking into how to code. I'm hoping to learn it by the time I move back to the States.
I laughed out loud at the introduction to this video - it's quite literally the EXACT same path I'm currently on! I graduated with a business degree four years ago, currently teaching English in Spain part-time, and within the past two months, I've started learning the basics of computer programming. Started with Free Code Camp Responsive Web Design, now I'm on CS50x. Even though it's two and a half years old, this video gives me hope, thank you! :)
@@EvordRiccie I finished the course but not the final project. I hope to go back to it someday, but for me it was too advanced! I need to learn more basics I think, but right now I’m not focusing on programming. So maybe in the future!
Yep, same story hear. As a primary caregiver, the future is at hand and now, having to plan for the undoubtedly inevitable has grown near and the next few steps will be the hardest ever. Thx for your story, reminds me of my early teaching days as well. Starting bootcamp in a few weeks, so at least there is direction. Many thx again.
you're a cool dude Code Drip, thank you for what you do, fuck the golden handcuffs, its a trap, coming from a non programming guy, but im coding now and loving every second of it. Ill watch your stuff later, for now ill just play it in the background, because your such a motivational beast, best wishes bro!
Man this is inspirational. Im 33 and I worked as a lumberjack/ in sawmill maintenance for about 14 years, so my whole adult life. It started taking a toll on me physically so I decided to shift from making a living with my hands to making a living with my brain. I'm currently in a full stack bootcamp with an income share agreement, so I won't pay unless I get a job at $50k+ within 3 years of finishing. I have about 6 months left. Just 2.5 months ago I struggled with the precourse material, the javascript section mainly. It took me 4 attempts to finish the final challenge to be accepted. Last week I took a redux sprint and I finished it in half the allotted time and now I could do that precourse probably in 20-40 min despite it taking me 2 full weeks the first time around. I'm absolutely blown away at how much I've learned in this amount of time. It's interesting to hear other peoples' stories about this. Knowing that there are so many out there without a relevant degree makes me feel better about not having one myself. I'm beyond ready to start an actual career and do something I can be proud of.
For every one of the success stories like yours there are at least several other talented individuals, many of which hold a CS degree or bootcamp certificate like myself, who have not been able to land any position.
Same here. Just got my CS degree but the knowledge and experience gap to get a job is huge. Learning JS and React currently in order to at least get a better chance.
Inspiring story my friend. I'm almost on the same track: I'm holding a BSc degree in Business, I have no job for a whole year and I'm thinking to start learning coding.
Your story meant a lot man and good on you! Definitely inspired me. I have two bank accounts both are in negative an I have just been sacked from my Fast food job two days ago.
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The power of being broke and having nothing to lose. Necessity is the driver of action.
Yes
You also end up being way more satisfied and grateful for your new job.
Entrepreneurship is an act of desperation
The hungry wolf hunts best.
All of human history summarized to a tee.
Chris Hawkes, a once 28-year-old college dropout and a truck driver, is now a senior developer in Geico. Coding seems to be one of the fields where people can start a career late in their lives.
Wow that was inspiring 🔥 thanks for sharing.
That's mostly because it's one of those fields whose skillsets you can actually learn on your own and online. You don't' need to go to school anymore to learn coding. Just follow some tutorials online, build your own projects, and learn on your own.
@@dr6770 All it takes is motivation and interest, anything can be learnt online via self-learning but it takes a huge amount of constant attention and zeal to achieve it.
Although, it's a simple roadmap to follow, however majority of the people fail to reach the end goal.
The reason why one should go to a school is because it's hard to deviate from the goal and when you meetup with other like minded souls, share a common concensus, learn n practice together, you become more productive and practical.
There are people who gets trapped into the Tutorial loop, keep on watching one after one video and never hand-coding to solve problems, that's one of the big disadvantages to learn from a pre-recorded video where you can not ask questions to the tutor right away to clear your fundamental doubts.
Also, most of the high paying jobs and positions ask for a Bachelor's degree anyway.
Do you miss trucking and is it worth it
28 is late? Try 50 or 60.
Omg. Literally my story!!! Psychology major to esl teacher in China to a student enrolled in a Bootcamp!!! Thank you for the motivation.
Bootcamp is a place where they will teach you everything you need to know within a few weeks. The course will probably conclude with one or two projects over a period of a week or two. But to get a job, the student who completes the Bootcamp has to work on a range of projects of his or her own choice to impress the recruiter. Most often it does not happen.
SAME!!
Just means you have an unique life story, as we all should. We shouldn't feel bad for NOT being part of the "collective" of manufactured, cloned identities presented to us to choose from. Resistance is NOT futile!
Make sure to work on a great portfolio and self-branding and you are good to go. Any updates regarding the Bootcamp?
Evangelos Sarantis Hi! I’m still in China. I will start boot camp in Feb. I’m planning to take a udemy and a codecademy beforehand. Also, I was told that code camps don’t cover algorithms and structures that are usually covered in interviews. So I’m planning to study that as well. I want to make sure I’m fully prepared and competent enough to get a job.
CS50 is amazing, David is one of the best instructor I've had (and I haven't met him in person yet!)
I'm 40 years old, degree qualified mechanical engineer. I have a wife and 2 kids and am now a coding student. 8 months in. I seriously wish I had started coding some 10 to 15 years ago. I'm still fresh on my journey but man, I cannot recommend it enough. Your story is truly inspirational. Well done for what you did. Respect. As they say, keep on keeping on.
English Teacher in Japan to self taught front end dev to Company Director. You can do it.
Inspiring! I am currently an English teacher in Japan, learning to code! My goal is to start applying February 2020
Congratulations on your success! Are there any courses or learning resources you'd recommend that you found to be especially helpful?
@@aaronkenney_17 Cheers.
Buy a thick book for server development
(I recommend Python).
Buy a thick book for Frontend Dev.
Learn JS by its self then a framework.
Go through them over 6 months.
The next 6 months make a large project by yourself.
Go Freelance and try to get projects then get it made off shore (vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos).
@@titaniumwolf2 What do you mean by get it made? As in live in those countries?
@@aleksandartomic9048 I think he means to pay them to do it for you.
After going through the comments, I think being an english teacher is the key😂
It's a must have skill - speak English:). First programming language you learn - English!:)
lol I had no idea it was such a common story. But I'm another one right here.
I used to an English teacher too🤣🤣🤣now learning web development 🤣🤭
I was an English teacher, now I am learning web development, but going down the university path, I am a second year 29 year old I.T. student, who is choosing a web development major.
@@milosleng1175 Me three. jajaja
I am a Mechanical engineering degree holder(I don't call myself a mech engineer because I don't have much knowledge about my degree).
It's been 4 years since my engineering completed yet haven't been employed. I am interested in coding and learned some languages and technologies. But sadly if you have a career gap that too this huge then one is bound to be doomed at least in my country with massive population . Depression and loneliness taking a toll on my health.
But watching these kind of motivational videos of strong people and their journey gives a tiny ray of hope that maybe my life will change and I will be able to show my face to my friends and family.
Thank you brother
Stay strong brother. You'll definitely get that job you want! 💪
Is just a matter of time, stay focused!
Hey Shubham, could you tell me about your current situation. Has it been improved or not? I think we should talk, maybe you could find a solution or a ray of hope.
I can understand...india is total shit bro.
Kya raha Shubham, Zinda h ya Nimat gya??
Being a broke English teacher in Italy, stuck in a limbo, I decided to go through the data analytics path which eventually brought me to learning python from scratch. A couple of weeks in, I find your journey highly motivating. As a non native speaker I’ve been brushed off by language schools and have decided not to be a part of an industry which discriminates based on your origins. Glad you found the right path in your life!
I have been stuck in limbo for 3 yrs after quiting my telecom help desk job, couldn't enrol to advance my education from a 3 yr diploma in aero electronics to a something Bsc , but now I just have to. Hopefully I decide between data analystics, database administration or network engineer( network eng will compliment my 5 yr experience as helpdesk tech but not much room for growth).
What do you think about my predicament, which path would you take and congratulations and good luck on your data analystics journey
Some folks feel the need to have an hour video without saying much in regards to this topic. This 6 minute video is genuine and to the point and makes a lot of sense.
They want more clicks on video ads
Some folks are born made to wave the flag
English teacher too. I'm now looking for my first job as a web developer. Cheers to all my fellow ESL teachers!
Sounds like I have to become and English teacher before I can progress to web developer !
I've been a certified public school English teacher for 11 years, and I'm attempting to move into this career. I know it's going to be difficult, but I'm willing to learn. Thanks you for your video. It gives me encouragement!
This is me right now, mind giving an update? I'm terrified at the challenge ahead but I am willing to go through it.
I'm so glad that life worked out for you man. Congrats for having the grit & initiative.
Dude, I’m an English teacher in Japan learning to code!
Update?
hello from coder in Japan!😀
Sami Hamidi why code, when you can play call of duty in real life outside.
@@soldez3129 why are you so low life ....
Konnichiwa!!
thanks for the story man! love the part about consistency.
Very informative and inspirational! This gets me fired up! I’m getting really motivated. Thank you for sharing!
Oh my God. I am a broke ESL teacher in Canada.
TheCrusaderRabbits YIKES
@Green31 English Second Language I believe.
Hihihi a proud one!!
My daughter became ESL certified but she is doing well now as a copywriter. She was the editor of her high school newspaper and won several awards for her writing.
BTW, I encouraged my daughters to take programming and engineering classes in high school. Recruiters will literally fight each other to hire female engineers.
Unfortunately, if you're a white male, you'll go to the end of the hiring list of large companies. Diversity is another word for legalized discrimination against white males.
@@picklerix6162 🤦🏿♂️ have you seen the demographics of programmers in most of these companies
Awesome video. I worked in Vietnam for 3 years as a teacher. I'm trying to break into coding now. You're videos are a great inspiration! Keep them coming!
Man! I’m getting inspired by your story! I hope someday i can meet you and say thank you in the future once i got to start studying coding while working.
Thanks a lot for having a youtube video like this.
God bless you more!
I hope I can do the same motivation and laser focus as you are.
Again thank you even i haven’t started it
I’m 37 and reaching my breaking point... pandemic hit hard, I’m broke and pretty much giving up on everything... things are starting to look pretty bad... looking for a way out. Came across your vid... maybe it will help me since I used to have an interest in coding... maybe it’s no too late. Thank you for that.
Why is this world this shit?
thank you so much for this video! I'm an English teacher currently. I can totally relate to what you've been through. Even though I love teaching, I don't like that fact that I can't show what I have done over the past 10 years. The work you've put your time and energy into leaves as soon as the student graduates from your school. That's why I've been learning programming and I can't wait to get to where you are right now.
Thanks, this pretty motivating! It's crazy to stumble on a TH-cam video that I can relate to--except the last part of course. I'm a college student, started CS50 course two months ago after seeing a Reddit comment. HTML is the only thing I'm familiar with and I'm slacking at the moment after watching the Week 2 and trying to solve the problems.
I'm glad everything worked great for you. I'll keep my eyes peeled on your channel.
Wow that's commendable. I'm glad it all worked out for you. Your hard work and dedication paid off. Salute!
Thank you, buddy, inspiring story. It is always to nurture our spirits with people that have struggled and persist and want just the best for others; I love that in people. I wish you tons of happiness. Keep inspiring people.
Keep being real and keep putting out real content and I'll be subscribing along with my friends. Just keep it real like you have been. Thnx brotha 👊
I have never been this thankful to youtube till I found you, man! Thanks for the inspiration. I'm a Manager in Marketing and my life is stalling.
Wow I can't believe there are so many of us with the same path.
Business Management to Corporate to ESL Online Nomad to Learning Code! Thanks for being straight to the point.. great content.
Very Inspirational. Not teaching english but currently in Chiang Mai backpacking SE Asia after quitting Big 4 accounting. Will pound the learning path when I get back to the states and refer to your videos for the reminder. Thanks again for sharing your story.
Thank you for your story and video Aaron. Your insight was awesome. Besides saying thank you, also wanted to say great job! Your perseverance is awesome!
The real key of success is not really about dreaming big because everyone can do that, but it's how big your desire to get out of your own misery & desperation is to push you to action.
I was a business finance major, English teacher in Asia, currently in HCMC. I have survived 3 years in Vietnam and 3 years in China. Never seen someone with such same experience as me. Since covid been learning video game programing with c#, but still years away from getting a full time job I fear. So decided to start the Odin Project.
Troi oi!
I'm an American teaching in Saigon as well. Same experiences.
6 million dong nouvo 2 motorbike > gas line broke sprayed everywhere. pushing it broke down in the heat & in floods.
My English center has me driving all over the city > district 11 one day district 2 the next.
Decided I can't do this for much longer.
Cut my hours to a bare minimum to focus on studying IT/Programming.
I'm currently about 2 months deep in webdev stuff focusing on React, bought Stephen Grider's udemy course.
I'm highly motivated, being broke, screaming kids, crazy traffic, and my love for learning helps a lot.
Stumbling upon your video by total accident really shows me I'm on the right path. It's so nice to see someone
in a similar position succeed.
I was also here in Saigon when you were here so it's possible we've crossed paths.
I'm glad I've found this video, I've watched it multiple times. Thanks!
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing your video and personal experience of becoming a developer. Really needed a video to inspire me again and to keep going and learning. Thought of giving up but your video gave me more hope.. thank you!!
I love how realistic and honest and helpful this is.
Too often people with conflicts of interest are trying to spin and manipulate the info they give to you for obvious reasons, and you end up with very polluted and false information on top of false hopes and being unprepared for reality.
Very inspiring. I'm glad you made it. Well done bud.
Thank you for this information Aaron. I am currently 23 and I am going to school for Computer Programming and taking a Udemy course for Java, it's 75 hours long and I am learning so much. Just know that we all appreciate the information you are giving us! Keep up the great work man!
Thanks for sharing man, that was very inspiring ^^
my story: psychology major to English teacher to frontend dev :) I've been working as a programmer for over 5 years and I really like it especially at my current job
is there no stress ?
@@bakkecske91 there is in every job
Love your video and story, and can relate to most of your past on a personal level. Worked in China in ESL for many years, had COVID fucking everything up, and since then avidly getting into coding. Looking to get into a physical bootcamp (not an online one) upon re-opening of institutions to get to know the people and establish a network. Meanwhile, still traveling the shit out of Asia as we speak right now while doing Codecademy & Codewars (thanks to your advice). Presently where you've currently reached in life is still a milestone for me. Every single one of your video helps! Thanks for the presentation.
Thanks man. I needed this video to get motivation.
"if you organize anything as a process, something that you chip away at overtime, you can do...another words its just a numbers game, put in the time and you can do it"
Let this sink in.
yes this seems to be one of the fundamentals of creation
For me it reminds me on how I set a goal of doing something 100 times before I quit. For example, stuck on a boss on a game? 99% you'll beat that guy before 100 attempts(depending on how hard the game is).
Loved your story! I'm finishing off a code school right now and feel hopeless about job prospects. Thanks for the helpful tips on finding your job I'll use them for my job search too.
Hi. I don't usually leave comments. I wanted to thank you for sharing your journey with everyone. One of your other videos (Fastest Way to Become a Software Developer) was one of the videos that I watched before deciding to give this another shot. That was about 5 months ago. I had some very important takeaways from that video that have helped shape my journey so far.
I was a truck driver at the time. I knew I had to get out of that job. I left trucking about 2 months ago to have more study time. Been studying pretty intensively and starting to feel more confident. Like you, I also took CS50 years ago. The first week was awesome. I quit after I felt I couldn't grasp it. I wish I knew back then that was normal. I'll have to give you another update when I make more progress!
Thank you for sharing your story.....much love!
Psych Major/Ex-DJ now current English teacher in South Korea waking up early every morning and doing Codeacademy before school. I’m hoping to move somewhere cheap with my savings (notwithstanding COVID19 restrictions ) next year to go into a cave and continue ‘chipping away” as you say. Thanks as well for the article suggestion Haseebq.com - his whole website is so detailed and informative. Keep up the great work dude! x
I'm in the same place that you've been before your break through. I'm a broke English teacher, aspiring to become an software developer!
This the push that i was waiting for.... thanks champ
Cannot tell how blessed I am stumbling into your videos. Thank you!!!!! I'm a support manager (been one for years) and seems father time is catching up as I no longer desire my current role, and looking into coding. Just want to be an individual contributor. :)
Do you know what I love about this video besides the awesome content? The length. Yup, the length of the video. Unlike others who have 15+ minutes that you barely get what they’re trying to say. Thanks for keeping this short and informative.
I’m taking a bit of a longer route, but I was also an English teacher in Korea. Came back to the states to teach at a public school and I just recently enrolled in a boot camp. Looking forward to this career change. Thanks for sharing! Hope you’re doing well.
Broke ESL teacher from Brazil here!
trying to become a self taught developer!
thank you for the inspiration!
This is the video I was looking for! 👏👏👍
Thanks for mentioning haseebq's article!
What can i say other than gratz man !!! Genuinely happy for you : p
I like how you just casually name drop references to learning resources. I end up pausing and looking them up. I have a dev job, but I'm always looking to learn more.
This is perfect. Like many other commenters, I am an ESL teacher starting to code. Thanks!
Awesome story proud of your accomplishment !!
I'm stunned at how similar your story is to mine. I majored in business and worked for a financial institution. Now, I'm teaching English in HCMC, and starting to work towards a job in tech. Thanks for sharing your story. It's extremely encouraging, but doesn't make any false promises about things being easy.
Wow, I'm in the same boat as well! Joined a bootcamp after many years abroad teaching English. I just graduated and you're so right about the slacking off. There's still a lot of preparation to do before I start the job search.
this is awesome man !
Love listening to you -thank you for sharing-! Subscribed
Superb story, really well told. Thanks, Aaron. I just completed an IBM AI Applied Professional Cert (on Coursera). Starting to work on an online portfolio. Thanks for the Odin Project tip.
Thanks for this story
You give me reason to not giving up on circumstances
Inspiring ❤️
Rad story. Thank you for sharing
Archaeologist here trying to get into coding. These videos are super helpful, and encouraging. Thanks.
an incredible story! inspiring
This is so true I really like what you said and can relate to it
I want to tell you thank you for sharing your story. I left college twice due to bad grades, pursued a degree in mass communications, and will graduate next week with honors. Yet I am broke, in debt, no job, and am finding it incredibly difficult to find a job in my field. I relate to your struggles. If there’s one thing I’ve learned about anything is...to keep moving forward. I’m starting my journey to learn software development and I’m hoping for the best. Thank you for posting your videos and sharing your knowledge. It helps people like me believe that there is a reason for this struggle. Good will come if you just keep pushing forward.
Thanks for this.
This is a really inspirational story.
You are an inspiration to me. Thank you.
That's one of the beauty of software community, almost every learning resources costs pennies, community is pretty big and most importantly everyone is welcomed, no age, degree bar unlike any so called professional careers like in law or medicine.
Software developers are the best creatures contributing to humanity, we run the fking internet baby
Thanks for your awesome story!! I’ve been trying to get my burned out English teacher wife into Web Development, I know she would be awesome at it!! The tech industry was my “way out” of crappy jobs and I feel it has the best bang for the buck!
I can't believe I found this channel! I just came back to the US after teaching in Japan for 4 years. I'm hoping to enter the job market in a few months.
And?? Have you? Xd
There's a strong similarity between the first half of your story and my life at the moment. I'm an Egyptian fresh graduate with a B.A degree in English Language. I've also started out thinking about shifting to a career in the tech industry about a year ago, and my first step was CS50. I've also kinda found it too difficult and quit. But then again, I've tried more than once to get back to learning, and I'm currently still a complete beginner. My life is kinda a mess right now and I really hope to shift my (English teaching) career (or to even not have to start it). Thank you Aaron for sharing your story; I most certainly needed to hear this atm. However, I kinda hope that the end of my story is a happy ending.
is CS50 difficult? i plan to enrol this course next month.
That article from Haseeb is the best thing I could possibly read as someone going the self taught route
Thanks for the motivation. I'm living and working in Vietnam as an ESL instructor and over teaching as well.
Glad I ran into you! I have a finance BS and want to get into CS. I want to learn and work with having a tool set. Your story is inspiring me, I've been so nervous that doing this by self-taught might not be possible.
very valuable video...I can definitely relate. Thank you for making this. It would be very interesting if you could tell us more about your process (maybe you have in another video?)
Man, I’m in that way starting from 0 is hard but the things is don’t give up 👏👏.
Wow. I'm a Vietnamese living in Ho Chi Minh City now. I'm so glad that I discovered your channel while searching for videos on how to become a software engineer. Listening to your story really inspired me to keep studying and working harder everyday to achieve my goal of becoming a software engineer. I lost my job due to Covid 9 months ago and I'm nearly broke but luckily I still have a little saving to buy a laptop and to pay for the courses that you recommended on Udemy. I spend all my free time everyday to study in order to speed up the process so that I can find a job as soon as possible. Great to know that you used to teach English in my city, and I feel very motivated to work harder and study harder to rise above all the failures, difficulties, and barriers in life and finally achieve success like you did! Thank you very much!
That's such an inspiring story! I'm an English teacher in Korea. I just started looking into how to code. I'm hoping to learn it by the time I move back to the States.
I laughed out loud at the introduction to this video - it's quite literally the EXACT same path I'm currently on! I graduated with a business degree four years ago, currently teaching English in Spain part-time, and within the past two months, I've started learning the basics of computer programming. Started with Free Code Camp Responsive Web Design, now I'm on CS50x. Even though it's two and a half years old, this video gives me hope, thank you! :)
have u finished the cs50x course? how was it?
@@EvordRiccie I finished the course but not the final project. I hope to go back to it someday, but for me it was too advanced! I need to learn more basics I think, but right now I’m not focusing on programming. So maybe in the future!
Yep, same story hear. As a primary caregiver, the future is at hand and now, having to plan for the undoubtedly inevitable has grown near and the next few steps will be the hardest ever. Thx for your story, reminds me of my early teaching days as well. Starting bootcamp in a few weeks, so at least there is direction. Many thx again.
Amazed. Very inspirational story
🙏🏼🙏🏼
Great video, I also didn't any background and I am happy to achieve my goals and work for a big tech company. thanks for sharing your story
you're a cool dude Code Drip, thank you for what you do, fuck the golden handcuffs, its a trap, coming from a non programming guy, but im coding now and loving every second of it. Ill watch your stuff later, for now ill just play it in the background, because your such a motivational beast, best wishes bro!
Man this is inspirational. Im 33 and I worked as a lumberjack/ in sawmill maintenance for about 14 years, so my whole adult life. It started taking a toll on me physically so I decided to shift from making a living with my hands to making a living with my brain. I'm currently in a full stack bootcamp with an income share agreement, so I won't pay unless I get a job at $50k+ within 3 years of finishing. I have about 6 months left. Just 2.5 months ago I struggled with the precourse material, the javascript section mainly. It took me 4 attempts to finish the final challenge to be accepted. Last week I took a redux sprint and I finished it in half the allotted time and now I could do that precourse probably in 20-40 min despite it taking me 2 full weeks the first time around. I'm absolutely blown away at how much I've learned in this amount of time. It's interesting to hear other peoples' stories about this. Knowing that there are so many out there without a relevant degree makes me feel better about not having one myself. I'm beyond ready to start an actual career and do something I can be proud of.
For every one of the success stories like yours there are at least several other talented individuals, many of which hold a CS degree or bootcamp certificate like myself, who have not been able to land any position.
Same here. Just got my CS degree but the knowledge and experience gap to get a job is huge. Learning JS and React currently in order to at least get a better chance.
Bro i even got a masters degree now and still cant get a job
Thanks for sharing your story :)
Inspiring story my friend. I'm almost on the same track: I'm holding a BSc degree in Business, I have no job for a whole year and I'm thinking to start learning coding.
Great videos! I was an ESL teacher in Spain. Just got my first freelance (contract) gig this summer. Going to start CS50 today.
Ola!!
You have that face of people who just won't give up. Congrats man
Awesome video I'm not a developer but have started to apply the tomato study method :) thank you bro inspirational story I have subbed.
Yo thank you for sharing your exp. :) subbed
Amazing Story man!
Your story meant a lot man and good on you! Definitely inspired me. I have two bank accounts both are in negative an I have just been sacked from my Fast food job two days ago.
Hope everything is going well for you now
Thank you very much Aaron.
love the story bro!