How I tried to “log into IT” and I succeeded
I was hooked by the fact that my path began almost like the author, but the result was just the opposite. So:
at school and students – sluggish interest in computers. they are not very common, mostly following the example of friends who had more advanced parents;
Soldering a computer is interesting, playing is not interesting at all, I’m trying to write something in an almost informational vacuum;
childhood is over, you have to work, not up to computers, stupidly there is no time, but because work with technology – computers are constantly present in life, but I’m always on the side of the user and a little bit of an integrator (install Windows – check pings);
constant interest “how does it work”, even bought a few books, but there is no time to get to grips with everything;
several attempts to do it – then there were already courses, but those “fashionable” ones that are from every iron were just beginning; there is no time – I give up;
I ask on Habr Q&A which book on Java is the best for a beginner, I get advice to take a course on stepik.org. And, you know, it’s awesome! Not just a theory, but a bunch of problems with automatic verification! Those. we learn how to write programs, and not just read a book;
by this time, the former profession had almost completely outlived itself in the sense that it became uninteresting to do the same thing from time to time;
the attitude towards classes has changed somewhat – before that I was engaged purely “for myself”, but, looking at the course chats, I see that the people are aimed at finding employment; besides, I understand that writing something useful is not an evening to sit, the amount of knowledge even for the simplest (but useful in practice) program requires a very large amount; thought – if it works, why not try this profession?
covid year! I leave, I go to the village and study “full-time”;
4 months – from December 20 to March 21 trying to find a job; essno problems – no one needs an elderly intern without experience, about a couple of hundred responses to vacancies – 4 or 5 social security benefits 🙂
finally I’m invited to a couple of places – cool! One was lucky: a software company for my “old” subject area, which I know well, although not from the IT side; for this I cling;
Yes Yes Yes! A switcher-quietish from courses (a few with stepik + javarush) got a job and now cuts butter in your buns – you can hate it :))
further like the author – they let me deal with the application, in which some changes need to be made …. and with which I cannot figure it out due to lack of qualifications;
but I didn’t freak out, I left as an author, but I called a meeting with the authorities and said – I can’t, let’s do something simpler! To which I received a very adequate answer: “well, yes, it’s difficult for a beginner” and now I have tasks … not that simple, but not so large-scale, shorter and more lifting, even though the bowler hat crackles not like a child 🙂
and yes, just like the author, I had to join a new team: the fourth time in my life (not counting school / university) and the first time in conditions when I am older than most of my colleagues (and the most inexperienced), plus complete remote work, which adds complexity;
despite the employment, I continue to take courses on topics that interest me and I think that this is the best way (well, apart from classical education, of course) to learn programming;
I’m growing at work: six months later, they sewed a june’s bar and doubled the salary;
it’s worth showing up somewhere on sites with vacancies – a lot of HR girls immediately run up and call-call-call for social security, even though I declare right away that I don’t have a goal to change jobs; they call me anyway, Yandex grabbed me, I agreed with great skepticism to “just talk”, two stages went through, let’s see what happens next.
Well, the path is about the same as that of the author of that article, but the result is just the opposite. I think the problem is not possible or not, and in that need or not. Something like this 🙂